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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 does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?
(a) He wants to find good land and become rich.
(b) He wants to find an Aboriginal to be his slave.
(c) He wants to join the army.
(d) He wants to send money home to his sick mother.

2. 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.

3. When Golda spears one of the cattle, what happens to him?
(a) He is captured and whipped by the white men.
(b) He is shot dead by the white men.
(c) He is kicked and killed by the panicked animal.
(d) He is captured and taken away by the white men.

4. What were the new settlers advised to do?
(a) Shoot all Aboriginals.
(b) Keep up their Englishness.
(c) Try to destroy Aboriginal culture.
(d) Take as much land as possible.

5. How are black servants paid?
(a) With rice.
(b) With warm blankets.
(c) They are not paid with anything.
(d) With money.

Short Answer Questions

1. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?

2. What flag do the soldiers raise on the shore?

3. Why can't the girls eat the rabbit that Gracie catches?

4. What is 'the boob'?

5. Who does Constable Riggs hand the girls over to here?

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