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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Molly think the dormitory looks like a jail?
(a) There are guards and guard-dogs outside.
(b) The doors are padlocked and there are bars at the windows.
(c) It is a black, imposing building with a high wall around it.
(d) There are no windows.

2. Why does Mr. Keeling advise the Department of Native Affairs that the half-caste children should be removed from Jigalong?
(a) They are an embarrassment.
(b) They are not getting a fair chance.
(c) It is degrading for them to run around with the darker skinned children.
(d) They eat too much food.

3. How does the Superintendent feel about the baby?
(a) He is angry with Maude.
(b) He is embarrassed that she was born at his station.
(c) He thinks she is disgusting.
(d) He says nice things.

4. What is Molly's plan?
(a) To find the rabbit-proof fence and follow it to Jigalong.
(b) To stow away on a ship heading north, then walk to Jigalong.
(c) To get the train back to Jigalong.
(d) To hitch-hike and ask for help from farms and villages.

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

6. What does the crewman teach them?
(a) To speak better English, so they will get on better at the settlement.
(b) How to find the Southern Cross, a star constellation that can guide them if they are lost.
(c) How to mend their clothes and shoes.
(d) How to sail a ship.

7. How do Gracie and Daisy react when Molly tells them of her plan to escape?
(a) They are frightened.
(b) They are excited.
(c) They think she is joking.
(d) They do not want to leave.

8. What do the girls think of the city?
(a) They think it is noisy and unfriendly.
(b) They find it boring.
(c) They think it is wonderful.
(d) They think it is exciting.

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

10. Where do the girls spend their first night on the run?
(a) Under a tree.
(b) Hidden in a barn.
(c) In a hollowed out rabbit burrow.
(d) Out in the open, wrapped in their spare clothes.

11. Why do new arrivals at the school create hope?
(a) The children hope that the new arrivals will be their friends.
(b) The children hope that the new arrivals will get picked on instead of them.
(c) The children hope for news from back home.
(d) The children hope that the new arrivals might be able to escape.

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

13. What do the girls at Moore River wear as shoes?
(a) They do not have shoes.
(b) Sandals.
(c) Thin bark slippers.
(d) Big, heavy snow boots.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Aborigines?

2. Why was Jiigalong established?

3. How do Maude's family feel about their new boss, the maintenance inspector?

4. Why does Mrs. Flannigan call the Superintendent of the Moore River Settlement to tell him that the girls were at her house?

5. Where does the policeman tell the girls they are going?

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