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

2. What does Gracie do later, when she is grown up?
(a) She becomes a teacher at Moore River, to help other girls like her.
(b) She works as domestic help on various farms.
(c) She campaigns for Aborigine rights.
(d) She marries a white man.

3. What are the girls supposed to use as a lavatory?
(a) A hole in the corner of the room.
(b) Buckets in the bathroom.
(c) An outside toilet across the snowy yard.
(d) Nothing; there is no lavatory.

4. How do Molly and Gracie's family express their sorrow when the girls are taken?
(a) Cut off all their hair.
(b) Cut themselves with sharp objects.
(c) Take some of the white children in retaliation.
(d) Refuse to eat.

5. What is the main reason why the Mardudjara people decide to leave their desert?
(a) They wanted the comforts of white society.
(b) Fear of reprisals from the white men.
(c) They were forced to leave by the white men.
(d) They were finding it hard to find water.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the girls hear footsteps they quickly hide. What do the girls think they see?

2. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

3. Why are the women settlers upset?

4. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?

5. Why is Violet Williams being punished?

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