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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?
(a) They are blocked by fences.
(b) All the animals have been frightened away.
(c) The white people have made hunting illegal.
(d) There are houses built on them.

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

3. What are the white men compared to?
(a) Stampeding herds.
(b) A terrible storm.
(c) Flesh eating spirits.
(d) Bush fires out of control.

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

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

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

7. What do Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?
(a) Roars of dangerous animals.
(b) Gunfire.
(c) A ship's horn.
(d) Men's voices and cries of frightened women.

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

9. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?
(a) Captain James Stirling.
(b) Arthur Carberry.
(c) Constable Riggs.
(d) Captain Freeman.

10. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?
(a) Trying to find a new home.
(b) Sealing and whaling.
(c) Capturing Aboriginals to sell as slaves.
(d) Looking for lost treasure.

11. How do the Mardudjara people interact with the white station owners?
(a) They steal food from them.
(b) They trade animal skins for food and tobacco.
(c) They train as stockmen and domestic help.
(d) They are captured and used as slaves by the white men.

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?

2. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?

3. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?

4. How are black servants paid?

5. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?

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