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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 the Canning Stock Route?
(a) A railway.
(b) A long line of wells stretching across the desert.
(c) A trade route.
(d) A trail used for transporting prisoners.

2. When Molly does return to Jigalong, what happens next?
(a) She is arrested and locked up.
(b) Her baby is taken away.
(c) She persuades her family to move far away.
(d) She is taken back to Moore River again.

3. Why was Jiigalong established?
(a) As a colony for new European settlers.
(b) As a school to teach Aboriginal children to speak English.
(c) As a settlement for Aborigines.
(d) As a base for maintenance workers on the rabbit-proof fence.

4. How many wives does Kundilla have?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Ten.

5. What does Molly decide that night?
(a) That they must play along with the rules so that they are not punished.
(b) That she must protect Gracie and Daisy.
(c) That they must escape.
(d) That she will never accept white culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Gracie when she reaches Wiluna?

2. What do Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?

3. How do Maude's family feel about their new boss, the maintenance inspector?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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