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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 Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?
(a) Flesh eating monsters.
(b) Gods.
(c) Spirits of the ancestors.
(d) Mighty kings.

2. When the girls reach the heathlands, what do they see?
(a) A large lake blocking their way.
(b) Beautiful and unusual wildflowers.
(c) A large lake blocking their way.
(d) Strange animals.

3. On their walk around the grounds, what do they see a group of the children doing near the milking sheds?
(a) Huddling together for warmth.
(b) Playing rounders.
(c) Trying to escape.
(d) Stealing extra food.

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

5. Where do the girls spend the night before moving on?
(a) In the car.
(b) On the floor at the constable's house.
(c) Locked in the empty cells in the police station.
(d) In a nearby Aborigine settlement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Maude's baby born?

2. Why does Mrs. Flannigan call the Superintendent of the Moore River Settlement to tell him that the girls were at her house?

3. What does the crewman teach them?

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

5. What do the girls think of the city?

(see the answer key)

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