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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 their first night on the run?
(a) Out in the open, wrapped in their spare clothes.
(b) Hidden in a barn.
(c) In a hollowed out rabbit burrow.
(d) Under a tree.

2. Where does the policeman tell the girls they are going?
(a) To Perth.
(b) To Port Headland to catch a boat south.
(c) He does not tell them where they are going.
(d) To a new home to the south.

3. Why does Martha warn the girls not to go near the cave?
(a) It is slippery and dangerous.
(b) There are strange hairy creatures living in it.
(c) It is off limits and they will be punished if they are caught.
(d) It is very dark inside and they might get lost.

4. What do a group of Aborigine men give the girls?
(a) Shoes and coats.
(b) Matches and salt.
(c) Food and water.
(d) Blankets.

5. What do the girls see as they come into the harbor, that makes them homesick?
(a) A wheat silo with a picture of a red dingo on it, which they recognize from flour sacks given to Aborigine people at Jigalong.
(b) The rabbit-proof fence.
(c) A huge water tank, like those at the depot at Jigalong.
(d) A food factory with a picture of a yellow chicken on it, which they recognize from food packets given to Aborigine people at Jigalong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?

2. What job does Daisy take when she grows up?

3. Who does the captain hand the girls over to, to be looked after during the voyage?

4. What precautions do the girls take when they think that their pursuers are close on their trail?

5. Why did some Mardudjara people react violently to white construction workers?

(see the answer key)

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