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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 does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?
(a) He wants to find good land and become rich.
(b) He wants to join the army.
(c) He wants to send money home to his sick mother.
(d) He wants to find an Aboriginal to be his slave.

2. What is 'the boob'?
(a) A building where the food is kept.
(b) A scary pit that girls are made to spend the night in as punishment.
(c) A torture device used for punishing bad children.
(d) A building where girls are locked up as punishment.

3. Why is Violet Williams being punished?
(a) She stole some food.
(b) She swore at a teacher.
(c) She hit a teacher.
(d) She was caught kissing a boy.

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

5. When does Gracie return to Jigalong?
(a) When she is reunited with her mother.
(b) When she is married.
(c) When she graduates Moore River.
(d) She never returns to Jigalong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the girls spend the night before moving on?

2. What do a group of Aborigine men give the girls?

3. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?

4. Who is the captain of the Koolinda, the ship that will take them south to Fremantle?

5. On their walk around the grounds, what do they see a group of the children doing near the milking sheds?

(see the answer key)

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