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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. Why is Molly confident that the tracker will not be able to follow them?
(a) He will assume they headed for the train station instead.
(b) They haven't lit any fires or left any signs along the way.
(c) Their footprints will have been washed away by the rain.
(d) They know he is in a different part of Australia at the moment.

2. Where do they spend the night before traveling on to Moore River?
(a) Inside the car.
(b) The East Perth Girl's Home.
(c) A settlement at Mogumber.
(d) A hotel in Perth.

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

4. Why can't the girls eat the rabbit that Gracie catches?
(a) Their bodies are not used to meat, so they will be ill.
(b) They have no matches to start a fire.
(c) They think rabbits are poisonous to eat.
(d) It is too small, so there isn't enough meat on it.

5. How is this carried out?
(a) Sending out patrols into the bush.
(b) Building very grand houses.
(c) Picnics, fox-hunts and balls.
(d) Taking Aboriginals as servants.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?

2. Where does Molly live now?

3. What do some mothers choose to do, out of fear that their children will be taken from them?

4. When the girls reach the heathlands, what do they see?

5. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?

(see the answer key)

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