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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 established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?
(a) Aboriginal servants are given a holiday.
(b) All the land is given back to the Aboriginals.
(c) Money is given to the Aboriginals.
(d) Free blankets are given to the Aboriginals.

2. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?
(a) Guns.
(b) Swords.
(c) Spears.
(d) Sticks.

3. How are black servants paid?
(a) With money.
(b) With rice.
(c) With warm blankets.
(d) They are not paid with anything.

4. What does Dora show the children how to make?
(a) Sun-hats.
(b) Shelters.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Knives.

5. What do some mothers choose to do, out of fear that their children will be taken from them?
(a) Give birth in the bush rather than hospitals.
(b) Kill the babies' white fathers.
(c) Hide their babies in animal skins.
(d) Leave Jigalong forever to go back into the desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?

2. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Aborigines?

3. What does the author think the girls really saw?

4. The girls are then handed over again, this time to Constable Pollett. How do they travel to Port Headland?

5. Who do the girls meet at Station 594, near Jigalong?

(see the answer key)

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