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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?
(a) To become men.
(b) To find a new clan to join.
(c) To fight white men.
(d) To gather firewood.

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

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

6. What punishment are Bidgup and Meedo given?
(a) They are whipped.
(b) Imprisonment in a Penal Colony.
(c) They are forced into slavery.
(d) They are hung.

7. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?
(a) That they will have to work for the white people.
(b) That the spirits of the ancestors will be angry.
(c) That the white people will declare war on them.
(d) That they will be driven from their lands.

8. How many wives does Kundilla have?
(a) Ten.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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 is wearing a uniform.
(d) Because he tells them he is in charge.

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

11. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?
(a) That they will try to kill all the Aboriginals in the camp.
(b) That they will anger the spirits.
(c) That they will take their land.
(d) That they will take away the women.

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

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

14. How do the Aboriginals cut their meat?
(a) With knives and forks.
(b) With sharp stones.
(c) With their teeth.
(d) With bears' teeth.

15. What does Dora show the children how to make?
(a) Sun-hats.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Knives.
(d) Shelters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do they justify this?

2. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?

3. What do Dora's clan see coming through the desert?

4. How does Captain Fremantle try to communicate when he realizes they don't understand him?

5. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?

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