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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?
(a) They enslave them.
(b) They prevent them from doing their sacred rituals and dances.
(c) They force them to wear clothes.
(d) They make it illegal for them to have children.

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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 writes it down instead.
(d) He draws pictures in the sand.

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

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

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

11. What does Dora show the children how to make?
(a) Knives.
(b) Sun-hats.
(c) Shelters.
(d) Shoes.

12. Why are the women settlers upset?
(a) Because they are hungry.
(b) Because they are afraid of the Aboriginals.
(c) Because the rain is destroying their possessions.
(d) Because the Aboriginals are not wearing clothes.

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

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

15. How many wives does Kundilla have?
(a) Two.
(b) Ten.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?

2. What were the white construction workers doing?

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

4. What is the main reason why the Mardudjara people decide to leave their desert?

5. How do the Aboriginals cut their meat?

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