3. 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 talking about things they have never seen or heard of.
(c) He is speaking in his language.
(d) He is speaking in verse.

4. 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 pretended to be gods.
(d) They offered to take them to an island, then left them there.

5. 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.

6. 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 and women, and their belongings, on the beach.
(d) White men fighting each other on the beach.

7. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?
(a) Because they had received threatening letters from them.
(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 white pirates had already killed men and taken women as sex slaves.

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?
(a) The white people have made hunting illegal.
(b) They are blocked by fences.
(c) There are houses built on them.
(d) All the animals have been frightened away.

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

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

15. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?
(a) Perth.
(b) Western Australia.
(c) Northern Australia.
(d) New England.