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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will actually happen to them?
(a) They will be sent further away from their families to work on dairy farms.
(b) They will be kept in a settlement for half-caste girls for the rest of their lives.
(c) They will be imprisoned.
(d) They will be sent to work as servants in England.

2. When do Aboriginal girls marry?
(a) At twenty-five.
(b) Between five and ten years old.
(c) Aboriginal people do not have a concept of marriage.
(d) As adolescents.

3. When the girls meet a man on a bike while walking along the fence, what does the man do?
(a) Gives them food, then reports that he saw them.
(b) Captures them and calls the police.
(c) Chases them away from the fence.
(d) Ignores their pleas for food and rides away.

4. What is 'the boob'?
(a) A torture device used for punishing bad children.
(b) A building where girls are locked up as punishment.
(c) A scary pit that girls are made to spend the night in as punishment.
(d) A building where the food is kept.

5. Who does the captain hand the girls over to, to be looked after during the voyage?
(a) George Johnson, a crewmember.
(b) Mimi-Ali, an injured Aborigine woman.
(c) Gwen Campbell, the stewardess.
(d) Raymond Baxter, a sailor.

6. On their walk around the grounds, what do they see a group of the children doing near the milking sheds?
(a) Playing rounders.
(b) Huddling together for warmth.
(c) Trying to escape.
(d) Stealing extra food.

7. How do the Aboriginal people make Jigalong a permanent 'sitting down place'?
(a) Sacred objects are brought and buried there.
(b) They make it the gathering place for all the tribes.
(c) They build permanent houses.
(d) They chase out all the white people and claim it for themselves.

8. What does the author think the girls really saw?
(a) An Aborigine man running to get away from the storm.
(b) The matron of the Moore River school.
(c) A horse.
(d) The black tracker, searching for them.

9. Why does Gracie leave the other two girls?
(a) She is cold and wants to ask for blankets at a nearby farm.
(b) To turn herself in to the authorities so that she can get some food.
(c) To get a train to the settlement where her mother lives.
(d) She is sick of being bossed around by Molly and wants to continue on her own.

10. When the girls reach the heathlands, what do they see?
(a) Beautiful and unusual wildflowers.
(b) A large lake blocking their way.
(c) Strange animals.
(d) A large lake blocking their way.

11. When the girls hear footsteps they quickly hide. What do the girls think they see?
(a) A witch.
(b) One of their gods.
(c) A flesh-eating spirit.
(d) A strange animal.

12. What are the girls supposed to use as a lavatory?
(a) Nothing; there is no lavatory.
(b) Buckets in the bathroom.
(c) An outside toilet across the snowy yard.
(d) A hole in the corner of the room.

13. How do Maude's family feel about their new boss, the maintenance inspector?
(a) They like him and invite him to share meals.
(b) He is cruel and they hate him.
(c) They think he is funny and they often mock him.
(d) They do not understand him.

14. Why is Violet Williams being punished?
(a) She hit a teacher.
(b) She was caught kissing a boy.
(c) She swore at a teacher.
(d) She stole some food.

15. How old is Daisy?
(a) Six.
(b) Nine.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Sixteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. The girls meet two other half-caste girls, called Eva and Nora. What do these two girls think will happen to them soon?

2. What do the girls want to ask him, but do not dare?

3. What do the girls think of the city?

4. Where do they stop off to hand the sick Aboriginal women over to the hospital?

5. What was the common view of half-caste children at this time?

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