Rabbit-proof Fence Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Doris Pilkington Garimara
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 172 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Rabbit-proof Fence Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Doris Pilkington Garimara
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 172 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal does Arthur Carberry bring to Australia with him?
(a) Lions.
(b) Horses.
(c) Foxes.
(d) Mice.

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

3. 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 offer them gifts in friendship.
(d) The soldiers tell them they mean no harm.

4. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?
(a) One hundred miles.
(b) One hundred thousand acres.
(c) One million square miles.
(d) Five acres.

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

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

7. 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 take their land.
(c) That they will anger the spirits.
(d) That they will take away the women.

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

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

10. What do Dora's clan see coming through the desert?
(a) White men on a hunting trip.
(b) A train.
(c) An army of white men.
(d) White men droving a large herd of cattle.

11. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?
(a) The white man is punished.
(b) He is whipped.
(c) He is given a bag of flour.
(d) He is given his wife back, but the white man is not punished.

12. 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 gods will be angry.
(c) Because the English people have no right to be there.
(d) Because their own laws and customs are not being respected.

13. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?
(a) Large areas of land were given to European farmers, without thought for the Aboriginal people living there.
(b) A percentage of the food produced must be given to Aboriginal people.
(c) Areas of land were given back to Aboriginal people.
(d) Jobs must be provided on the farms for the Aboriginal people.

14. What is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?
(a) Aboriginal servants are given a holiday.
(b) Free blankets are given to the Aboriginals.
(c) Money is given to the Aboriginals.
(d) All the land is given back to the Aboriginals.

15. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?
(a) They force them to wear clothes.
(b) They enslave them.
(c) They prevent them from doing their sacred rituals and dances.
(d) They make it illegal for them to have children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?

2. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?

3. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

4. What strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?

5. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?

(see the answer keys)

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