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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 is a wuungku?
(a) A type of weapon.
(b) A shelter.
(c) A ceremonial headdress.
(d) A dress.

2. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?
(a) Captain Fremantle.
(b) Molly.
(c) Maude.
(d) Kundilla.

3. What do the Aboriginals have to do to survive?
(a) Become servants to white men and women.
(b) Become Christian.
(c) Declare war on England.
(d) Run away into the desert.

4. Where does Daisy live now?
(a) She lives at Jigalong.
(b) She is dead.
(c) She lives with her tribe far out in the desert.
(d) She lives in Perth.

5. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?
(a) The white men have superior weapons.
(b) They don't believe in violence.
(c) They believe that the white men are right.
(d) The Queen tells them to.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the common view of half-caste children at this time?

2. Why can't the girls eat the rabbit that Gracie catches?

3. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

4. Why does Molly sometimes wish she didn't have light skin?

5. How does Captain Fremantle try to communicate when he realizes they don't understand him?

(see the answer key)

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