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

2. Why does Mrs. Flannigan call the Superintendent of the Moore River Settlement to tell him that the girls were at her house?
(a) She is concerned for their safety.
(b) She believes that they should be kept away from their black families.
(c) She is afraid of them.
(d) She is annoyed that they asked her for food.

3. 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.

4. What do the girls think of the city?
(a) They find it boring.
(b) They think it is noisy and unfriendly.
(c) They think it is wonderful.
(d) They think it is exciting.

5. What will actually happen to them?
(a) They will be kept in a settlement for half-caste girls for the rest of their lives.
(b) They will be imprisoned.
(c) They will be sent further away from their families to work on dairy farms.
(d) They will be sent to work as servants in England.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Molly does return to Jigalong, what happens next?

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

3. Where do they spend the night before traveling on to Moore River?

4. Why does Mr. Keeling advise the Department of Native Affairs that the half-caste children should be removed from Jigalong?

5. As they go through the city, what suddenly frightens the girls?

(see the answer key)

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