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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: The Escape.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some mothers choose to do, out of fear that their children will be taken from them?
(a) Give birth in the bush rather than hospitals.
(b) Leave Jigalong forever to go back into the desert.
(c) Hide their babies in animal skins.
(d) Kill the babies' white fathers.

2. Why did the Captain crash the ship?
(a) He was shocked by the sight of Captain Fremantle's boat already in the estuary.
(b) He wasn't watching where he was going.
(c) He was drunk.
(d) He saw the Aboriginals and thought they would make good servants.

3. Why does Molly think she is too old for school?
(a) She has already grown up in black culture so is too old now to change.
(b) She has reached puberty and is old enough to marry.
(c) Everyone else at Moore River is much younger than her.
(d) Aborigine girls finish school at ten years old.

4. How do the settlers allocate land?
(a) The Aboriginals decide.
(b) The land is bought off the Aboriginals.
(c) They are allowed to choose land wherever they want.
(d) Each person is given a grant of land by the English government.

5. How do the Aboriginals cut their meat?
(a) With bears' teeth.
(b) With sharp stones.
(c) With their teeth.
(d) With knives and forks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?

2. What do the girls think of the city?

3. Where is Maude's baby born?

4. What is the punishment for running away?

5. How does the grandmother protect the new baby from any evil spirits nearby?

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