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

2. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?
(a) That they will have to work for the white people.
(b) That the white people will declare war on them.
(c) That they will be driven from their lands.
(d) That the spirits of the ancestors will be angry.

3. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?
(a) One million square miles.
(b) One hundred miles.
(c) Five acres.
(d) One hundred thousand acres.

4. What becomes a regular weekend event?
(a) Hunting and gathering traditional foods.
(b) A ritual dance.
(c) Telling stories of the ancestors around the communal fire.
(d) Pilgrimages into the Law.

5. What will actually happen to them?
(a) They will be kept in a settlement for half-caste girls for the rest of their lives.
(b) They will be imprisoned.
(c) They will be sent to work as servants in England.
(d) They will be sent further away from their families to work on dairy farms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some mothers choose to do, out of fear that their children will be taken from them?

2. What does Captain Fremantle want?

3. What are the girls told they are not allowed to do at the school?

4. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?

5. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?

(see the answer key)

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