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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: What Happened to Them? Where Are They Now?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Molly do when she is refused permission to visit home?
(a) She sends a letter to the Jigalong Superintendent begging for help.
(b) She escapes again.
(c) She refuses to eat.
(d) She kills the matron of Moore River.

2. When Molly grows up, what job does she get?
(a) She works as domestic help on a station.
(b) She does not get a job; she marries and has children instead.
(c) She becomes a teacher at the Moore River school.
(d) She works as an inspector of the rabbit-proof fence.

3. What does Molly decide that night?
(a) That she will never accept white culture.
(b) That she must protect Gracie and Daisy.
(c) That they must play along with the rules so that they are not punished.
(d) That they must escape.

4. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?
(a) Captain Freeman.
(b) Major Edmund Lockyer.
(c) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.
(d) Captain Fremantle.

5. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?
(a) The white man is punished.
(b) He is given a bag of flour.
(c) He is given his wife back, but the white man is not punished.
(d) He is whipped.

Short Answer Questions

1. What excuse does Molly give so that the three of them can stay behind when the other girls head out for school?

2. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?

3. What were the new settlers advised to do?

4. What do the girls want to ask him, but do not dare?

5. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?

(see the answer key)

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