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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. The girls are then handed over again, this time to Constable Pollett. How do they travel to Port Headland?
(a) By boat.
(b) By car.
(c) They walk.
(d) By train.

2. What do the girls want to ask him, but do not dare?
(a) Whether there are black people in other places in the world.
(b) Where they are being taken and what will happen to them.
(c) Why the white people came to Australia in the first place.
(d) Whether the slaves who built the pyramids were like them, or like the white men.

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

4. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Challenger.
(c) Koolinda.
(d) Amity.

5. Where do they spend the night before traveling on to Moore River?
(a) Inside the car.
(b) A settlement at Mogumber.
(c) A hotel in Perth.
(d) The East Perth Girl's Home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Molly decide that night?

2. Who is the captain of the Koolinda, the ship that will take them south to Fremantle?

3. What is the usual breakfast?

4. What makes Molly think the dormitory looks like a jail?

5. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

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