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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the main reason why the Mardudjara people decide to leave their desert?
(a) Fear of reprisals from the white men.
(b) They wanted the comforts of white society.
(c) They were forced to leave by the white men.
(d) They were finding it hard to find water.

4. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?
(a) Stealing all of the cattle.
(b) Taking one of the cattle.
(c) Killing the white men.
(d) Killing all of the cattle.

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

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

7. What were the white construction workers doing?
(a) Building houses.
(b) Building a barn.
(c) Laying railway tracks.
(d) Sinking wells.

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

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

10. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?
(a) Because white pirates had already killed men and taken women as sex slaves.
(b) Because they were afraid of the strange colour of their skin.
(c) Because they had seen white men fighting from a distance.
(d) Because they had received threatening letters from them.

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

12. What did Captain Fremantle name the colony?
(a) Swan River Colony.
(b) Jigalong.
(c) Perth.
(d) Moore River Settlement.

13. 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) Hunger and disease.
(d) Violence, sexual exploitation, and loss of lands.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?

2. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?

3. What does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?

4. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?

5. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?

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