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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?
(a) They believe that the white men are right.
(b) The white men have superior weapons.
(c) They don't believe in violence.
(d) The Queen tells them to.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. How long is the military outpost there for?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) One year.

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

14. How long had the red desert been the home of the Mardudjara people before they left?
(a) Over 40,000 years.
(b) Under 10 years.
(c) Almost 2,000 years.
(d) 100 years.

15. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?
(a) The white man is punished.
(b) He is given his wife back, but the white man is not punished.
(c) He is whipped.
(d) He is given a bag of flour.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?

3. In what century was the military outpost established on the shores of Western Australia?

4. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?

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

(see the answer keys)

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