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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?
(a) Because they recognize his picture from the newspaper.
(b) Because he tells them he is in charge.
(c) Because he is wearing a uniform.
(d) Because the other men salute him.

2. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?
(a) That they will be driven from their lands.
(b) That the white people will declare war on them.
(c) That the spirits of the ancestors will be angry.
(d) That they will have to work for the white people.

3. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?
(a) They were established by the king of the Aboriginals.
(b) They have been around for a very long time.
(c) They were passed down by the Dreamtime spirit beings.
(d) They were the first laws in Australia before the white people came.

4. What do Dora's clan see coming through the desert?
(a) White men droving a large herd of cattle.
(b) White men on a hunting trip.
(c) An army of white men.
(d) A train.

5. What did Captain Fremantle name the colony?
(a) Jigalong.
(b) Perth.
(c) Moore River Settlement.
(d) Swan River Colony.

6. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?
(a) Violence, sexual exploitation, and loss of lands.
(b) The white people steal their food and possessions.
(c) Hunger and disease.
(d) They are forced to work as slaves.

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

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

9. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?
(a) Because their own laws and customs are not being respected.
(b) Because the English people have no right to be there.
(c) Because their gods will be angry.
(d) Because they would rather be tried under French law.

10. What were the new settlers advised to do?
(a) Keep up their Englishness.
(b) Try to destroy Aboriginal culture.
(c) Shoot all Aboriginals.
(d) Take as much land as possible.

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

12. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?
(a) Because they were afraid of the strange colour of their skin.
(b) Because white pirates had already killed men and taken women as sex slaves.
(c) Because they had seen white men fighting from a distance.
(d) Because they had received threatening letters from them.

13. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?
(a) British.
(b) Australian.
(c) French.
(d) American.

14. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?
(a) Spears.
(b) Swords.
(c) Guns.
(d) Sticks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?

2. What flag do the soldiers raise on the shore?

3. How do the white workers react to the violence?

4. How do the Mardudjara people interact with the white station owners?

5. What is a wuungku?

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