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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. When are the girls allowed sheets on their beds?
(a) The beds always have sheets.
(b) Only on very cold nights.
(c) Only if they have been well behaved.
(d) Only when special visitors come.

2. When does Daisy return to Moore River?
(a) She never goes back to Moore River.
(b) Two weeks after returning to her family.
(c) When she gives birth to her first child.
(d) She goes with Molly.

3. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?
(a) Isolation and lack of weapons make them vulnerable.
(b) There is a large storm coming.
(c) They do not have enough food.
(d) The Aboriginal men fight them off.

4. What does the author think the girls really saw?
(a) The matron of the Moore River school.
(b) A horse.
(c) An Aborigine man running to get away from the storm.
(d) The black tracker, searching for them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the military outpost there for?

2. Why is Molly confident that the tracker will not be able to follow them?

3. Why does Molly think she is too old for school?

4. What is 'the boob'?

5. Who does Miss Campbell hand the girls over to when they reach the Moore River School?

(see the answer key)

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