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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?
(a) There is a large storm coming.
(b) They do not have enough food.
(c) Isolation and lack of weapons make them vulnerable.
(d) The Aboriginal men fight them off.

2. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?
(a) They told them there was good land further down the coast.
(b) They pretended to be gods.
(c) They offered to take them to an island, then left them there.
(d) They offered them poisoned food.

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

4. How does Captain Fremantle try to communicate when he realizes they don't understand him?
(a) He gets a translator.
(b) He tries to use sign language.
(c) He draws pictures in the sand.
(d) He writes it down instead.

5. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?
(a) That they will take away the women.
(b) That they will take their land.
(c) That they will anger the spirits.
(d) That they will try to kill all the Aboriginals in the camp.

6. How do the settlers allocate land?
(a) The Aboriginals decide.
(b) They are allowed to choose land wherever they want.
(c) The land is bought off the Aboriginals.
(d) Each person is given a grant of land by the English government.

7. What do Bidgup and Meedo decide to do about the food problem?
(a) Kill all the white people.
(b) Move the whole tribe away into the desert.
(c) Take the white women hostage.
(d) Take one of the white people's sheep.

8. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?
(a) New England.
(b) Northern Australia.
(c) Western Australia.
(d) Perth.

9. In what century was the military outpost established on the shores of Western Australia?
(a) 1500s.
(b) 1200s.
(c) 1900s.
(d) 1800s.

10. Why does Kundilla conclude that the white soldiers mean them no harm?
(a) The soldiers are unarmed.
(b) The soldiers tell them they mean no harm.
(c) The soldiers offer them gifts in friendship.
(d) The soldiers capture two Aboriginal men but then let them go unharmed.

11. What is the Canning Stock Route?
(a) A trade route.
(b) A railway.
(c) A trail used for transporting prisoners.
(d) A long line of wells stretching across the desert.

12. What strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?
(a) A stranger arrives.
(b) A bad storm.
(c) One of the clan goes missing.
(d) A loud boom.

13. What is the main reason why the Mardudjara people decide to leave their desert?
(a) They were finding it hard to find water.
(b) They were forced to leave by the white men.
(c) They wanted the comforts of white society.
(d) Fear of reprisals from the white men.

14. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?
(a) The white men have superior weapons.
(b) The Queen tells them to.
(c) They believe that the white men are right.
(d) They don't believe in violence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Mardudjara people feel about their work?

2. What does Dora show the children how to make?

3. What were the white construction workers doing?

4. How long is the military outpost there for?

5. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?

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