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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 Captain Fremantle want?
(a) He wants them to put some clothes on.
(b) He wants them to bring him and his men some food.
(c) He wants to teach them about white men and their society.
(d) He wants their permission to name the area.

2. How long had the red desert been the home of the Mardudjara people before they left?
(a) Over 40,000 years.
(b) Almost 2,000 years.
(c) 100 years.
(d) Under 10 years.

3. How do the Mardudjara people interact with the white station owners?
(a) They are captured and used as slaves by the white men.
(b) They steal food from them.
(c) They train as stockmen and domestic help.
(d) They trade animal skins for food and tobacco.

4. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?
(a) He is given his wife back, but the white man is not punished.
(b) The white man is punished.
(c) He is given a bag of flour.
(d) He is whipped.

5. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?
(a) Large areas of land were given to European farmers, without thought for the Aboriginal people living there.
(b) Areas of land were given back to Aboriginal people.
(c) Jobs must be provided on the farms for the Aboriginal people.
(d) A percentage of the food produced must be given to Aboriginal people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the group have to do in order to adapt to life with white people?

2. Why does Martha warn the girls not to go near the cave?

3. What does Molly decide that night?

4. Who makes the decision about when teenage boys are ready to go into the Law?

5. What job does Daisy take when she grows up?

(see the answer key)

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