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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?
(a) Western Australia.
(b) New England.
(c) Northern Australia.
(d) Perth.

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

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

6. How is this carried out?
(a) Taking Aboriginals as servants.
(b) Sending out patrols into the bush.
(c) Building very grand houses.
(d) Picnics, fox-hunts and balls.

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

8. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?
(a) Captain Freeman.
(b) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.
(c) Major Edmund Lockyer.
(d) Captain Fremantle.

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

10. Who is Yellagonga?
(a) A powerful spirit ancestor.
(b) An Aboriginal god.
(c) A war-loving tribal leader.
(d) A peace-loving tribal leader.

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

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

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

14. What is the Mardudjara?
(a) An area of Australia where beautiful flowers grow.
(b) A settlement for Aboriginal people.
(c) Several tribes of Aboriginal people who live in the desert regions.
(d) An Aboriginal god.

15. When did the first European settlers arrive in Western Australia?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1670.
(d) 1896.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dora show the children how to make?

2. What is a wuungku?

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

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

5. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?

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