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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 Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?
(a) Roars of dangerous animals.
(b) A ship's horn.
(c) Gunfire.
(d) Men's voices and cries of frightened women.

2. How long is the military outpost there for?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) One year.
(d) Five years.

3. When Golda spears one of the cattle, what happens to him?
(a) He is captured and whipped by the white men.
(b) He is shot dead by the white men.
(c) He is captured and taken away by the white men.
(d) He is kicked and killed by the panicked animal.

4. How do Molly and Gracie's family express their sorrow when the girls are taken?
(a) Cut themselves with sharp objects.
(b) Refuse to eat.
(c) Take some of the white children in retaliation.
(d) Cut off all their hair.

5. What are the girls supposed to use as a lavatory?
(a) Buckets in the bathroom.
(b) An outside toilet across the snowy yard.
(c) Nothing; there is no lavatory.
(d) A hole in the corner of the room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gracie leave the other two girls?

2. Who is the father of Maude's child?

3. What is a wuungku?

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

5. Why does the Protector of Aborigines think there is no point in trying to recapture Molly and Daisy?

(see the answer key)

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