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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the girls frightened when they get off the boat?
(a) The port is very crowded and noisy.
(b) There are strange animals everywhere.
(c) They see men with guns.
(d) They do not know where they are being taken.

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

3. Where do they stop off to hand the sick Aboriginal women over to the hospital?
(a) Perth.
(b) Marble Bar.
(c) Port Headland.
(d) Fremantle.

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

5. Who is the captain of the Koolinda, the ship that will take them south to Fremantle?
(a) Captain Stirling.
(b) Captain Smith.
(c) Captain Freeman.
(d) Captain Fremantle.

6. What do some mothers choose to do, out of fear that their children will be taken from them?
(a) Hide their babies in animal skins.
(b) Kill the babies' white fathers.
(c) Give birth in the bush rather than hospitals.
(d) Leave Jigalong forever to go back into the desert.

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

8. Who does Miss Campbell hand the girls over to when they reach the Moore River School?
(a) Polly Martin.
(b) Martha Jones.
(c) Miss Evans.
(d) The caretaker.

9. What did Mr. Keeling, the Superintendent at Jigalong depot, write in a letter that was ignored?
(a) That the half-caste children would be very unhappy if taken away from their families.
(b) That the Aborigines would become violent if their children were taken away.
(c) That the half-caste children might be dangerous if placed into white society.
(d) That the half-caste children tend more towards black culture than white.

10. What do the girls want to ask him, but do not dare?
(a) Whether there are black people in other places in the world.
(b) Where they are being taken and what will happen to them.
(c) Whether the slaves who built the pyramids were like them, or like the white men.
(d) Why the white people came to Australia in the first place.

11. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Aborigines?
(a) It is a place where they can learn English.
(b) They will be able to live in houses rather than stick shelters.
(c) Food, and safety from the white people.
(d) No guns are allowed in the settlement.

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

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

14. Why do the girls want to speak up when Miss Campbell introduces them to the staff member?
(a) They want to tell her that they are very hungry.
(b) They want to tell her that they are from Jigalong, not Nullagine.
(c) They want to tell her that they do not want to be separated.
(d) They want to tell her that she pronounced their names wrong.

15. The girls are then handed over again, this time to Constable Pollett. How do they travel to Port Headland?
(a) They walk.
(b) By car.
(c) By train.
(d) By boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Molly and Gracie's family express their sorrow when the girls are taken?

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

3. What do a group of Aborigine men give the girls?

4. Why does Martha warn the girls not to go near the cave?

5. Why is Violet Williams being punished?

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