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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?
(a) In widened-out rabbit burrows.
(b) In shelters made from branches and bark.
(c) In brick houses.
(d) In small mud huts.

4. What flag do the soldiers raise on the shore?
(a) The Jolly Roger (a pirate flag).
(b) The Flag of Australia.
(c) The Union Jack (the British flag).
(d) The Stars and Stripes (the American flag).

5. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Koolinda.
(c) Amity.
(d) Challenger.

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

7. What kind of weather is it always successful to hunt in?
(a) Rain: the tracks are easy to see, and the animals are less alert.
(b) Misty: the animals can't see the hunters coming.
(c) Windy: the wind blows the hunters' scent away.
(d) Sunny: it is easier to see and run in sunny weather.

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

9. How are black servants paid?
(a) They are not paid with anything.
(b) With money.
(c) With rice.
(d) With warm blankets.

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

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

12. What were the white construction workers doing?
(a) Building houses.
(b) Sinking wells.
(c) Laying railway tracks.
(d) Building a barn.

13. How do the Mardudjara people feel about their work?
(a) They do not understand it and often do a bad job.
(b) They are angered by it, and plot revenge.
(c) They see it as a form of kindness.
(d) They see it as exploitation.

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

15. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?
(a) White men and women, and their belongings, on the beach.
(b) White men fighting each other on the beach.
(c) White men carrying off Aboriginal women.
(d) Animals attacking their camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?

2. What animal does Arthur Carberry bring to Australia with him?

3. Why are the women settlers upset?

4. When Golda spears one of the cattle, what happens to him?

5. How is this carried out?

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