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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. In what century was the military outpost established on the shores of Western Australia?
(a) 1500s.
(b) 1200s.
(c) 1900s.
(d) 1800s.

2. What do Bidgup and Meedo decide to do about the food problem?
(a) Kill all the white people.
(b) Take one of the white people's sheep.
(c) Move the whole tribe away into the desert.
(d) Take the white women hostage.

3. Who is the captain of the Koolinda, the ship that will take them south to Fremantle?
(a) Captain Fremantle.
(b) Captain Freeman.
(c) Captain Smith.
(d) Captain Stirling.

4. What is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?
(a) Money is given to the Aboriginals.
(b) All the land is given back to the Aboriginals.
(c) Free blankets are given to the Aboriginals.
(d) Aboriginal servants are given a holiday.

5. When do Aboriginal girls marry?
(a) At twenty-five.
(b) As adolescents.
(c) Between five and ten years old.
(d) Aboriginal people do not have a concept of marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls think of the city?

2. Where do they spend the night before traveling on to Moore River?

3. Why does Mr. Keeling advise the Department of Native Affairs that the half-caste children should be removed from Jigalong?

4. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?

5. The girls meet two other half-caste girls, called Eva and Nora. What do these two girls think will happen to them soon?

(see the answer key)

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