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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?
(a) They are forced to work as slaves.
(b) The white people steal their food and possessions.
(c) Violence, sexual exploitation, and loss of lands.
(d) Hunger and disease.

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

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

6. What were the new settlers advised to do?
(a) Take as much land as possible.
(b) Keep up their Englishness.
(c) Try to destroy Aboriginal culture.
(d) Shoot all Aboriginals.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What do the Aboriginals have to do to survive?
(a) Become servants to white men and women.
(b) Declare war on England.
(c) Run away into the desert.
(d) Become Christian.

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

14. What is the Canning Stock Route?
(a) A trail used for transporting prisoners.
(b) A railway.
(c) A trade route.
(d) A long line of wells stretching across the desert.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the women settlers upset?

2. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?

3. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?

4. What is a wuungku?

5. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?

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