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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 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.

2. What is Molly's plan?
(a) To get the train back to Jigalong.
(b) To find the rabbit-proof fence and follow it to Jigalong.
(c) To stow away on a ship heading north, then walk to Jigalong.
(d) To hitch-hike and ask for help from farms and villages.

3. Where is Maude's baby born?
(a) In the baby's father's house.
(b) In the hospital at Perth.
(c) In a hut in Jigalong.
(d) At their camp south of Jigalong.

4. Why does Mr. Keeling advise the Department of Native Affairs that the half-caste children should be removed from Jigalong?
(a) They are not getting a fair chance.
(b) It is degrading for them to run around with the darker skinned children.
(c) They eat too much food.
(d) They are an embarrassment.

5. How does Molly end up back at Moore River?
(a) She is tracked and captured at her family's camp near Jigalong.
(b) She goes there to help other children escape, and guides them home.
(c) She is taken there after being released from hospital in Perth.
(d) She goes there to work as a teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Jiigalong established?

2. How do the white workers react to the violence?

3. When the girls meet a man on a bike while walking along the fence, what does the man do?

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

5. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?

(see the answer key)

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