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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?
(a) He is trying to talk in their language, but getting it wrong.
(b) He is speaking in his language.
(c) He is speaking in verse.
(d) He is talking about things they have never seen or heard of.

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

4. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?
(a) Because their gods will be angry.
(b) Because the English people have no right to be there.
(c) Because their own laws and customs are not being respected.
(d) Because they would rather be tried under French law.

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

6. How does the Illustrated Melbourne Post say the Aboriginal people reacted to this act of goodwill?
(a) They refused it.
(b) They did not understand.
(c) They were angry.
(d) With gratitude.

7. How do they justify this?
(a) The food should be shared.
(b) They will die if they do not.
(c) The spirits of the ancestors told them to.
(d) The white people are evil.

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

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

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

11. Who makes the decision about when teenage boys are ready to go into the Law?
(a) Their mothers.
(b) The tribal elders.
(c) Their fathers.
(d) The boys themselves.

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

13. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?
(a) Isolation and lack of weapons make them vulnerable.
(b) They do not have enough food.
(c) The Aboriginal men fight them off.
(d) There is a large storm coming.

14. How do the white workers react to the violence?
(a) They kill some of the Mardudjara people in their sleep.
(b) They take more of the Mardudjara land as compensation.
(c) They leave.
(d) They report the Mardudjara people to the authorities.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?

2. What does Captain Fremantle want?

3. Why does Kundilla conclude that the white soldiers mean them no harm?

4. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?

5. By what name are the Mardudjara people referred to?

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