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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the Captain crash the ship?
(a) He wasn't watching where he was going.
(b) He was drunk.
(c) He was shocked by the sight of Captain Fremantle's boat already in the estuary.
(d) He saw the Aboriginals and thought they would make good servants.

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

3. 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) Jobs must be provided on the farms for the Aboriginal people.
(c) A percentage of the food produced must be given to Aboriginal people.
(d) Areas of land were given back to Aboriginal people.

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

5. How do they justify this?
(a) They will die if they do not.
(b) The white people are evil.
(c) The food should be shared.
(d) The spirits of the ancestors told them to.

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

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

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

9. What animal does Arthur Carberry bring to Australia with him?
(a) Lions.
(b) Horses.
(c) Foxes.
(d) Mice.

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

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

12. What do the group have to do in order to adapt to life with white people?
(a) Wash.
(b) Put clothes on.
(c) Become Christian.
(d) Learn English.

13. What punishment are Bidgup and Meedo given?
(a) They are whipped.
(b) They are hung.
(c) They are forced into slavery.
(d) Imprisonment in a Penal Colony.

14. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?
(a) That the white men are human beings and not spirits.
(b) A secret hiding place from the white men.
(c) That all their beliefs are false.
(d) How to use guns.

15. By what name are the Mardudjara people referred to?
(a) Mardu.
(b) Jara.
(c) The Desert People.
(d) Majara.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?

2. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?

3. What is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?

4. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?

5. How are black servants paid?

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