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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When are the girls allowed sheets on their beds?
(a) Only when special visitors come.
(b) The beds always have sheets.
(c) Only on very cold nights.
(d) Only if they have been well behaved.

3. 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) Raymond Baxter, a sailor.
(d) Gwen Campbell, the stewardess.

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

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

6. How do Molly and Gracie's family express their sorrow when the girls are taken?
(a) Cut off all their hair.
(b) Cut themselves with sharp objects.
(c) Take some of the white children in retaliation.
(d) Refuse to eat.

7. What happens at the big meeting held during the holidays at the end of the year?
(a) Traditional ceremonies and rituals are performed.
(b) War is declared on the white people.
(c) They celebrate Christmas.
(d) Marriages take place only at this time of year.

8. What are the girls told they are not allowed to do at the school?
(a) Speak their own language.
(b) Play games.
(c) Worship their own gods.
(d) Have lessons together.

9. Why does Mrs. Flannigan call the Superintendent of the Moore River Settlement to tell him that the girls were at her house?
(a) She is afraid of them.
(b) She is annoyed that they asked her for food.
(c) She is concerned for their safety.
(d) She believes that they should be kept away from their black families.

10. How do the girls keep warm that night?
(a) They light a fire.
(b) They put on all the clothes they own at once.
(c) They sleep in the same bed.
(d) They have to keep moving around instead of sleeping.

11. Why can't the girls eat the rabbit that Gracie catches?
(a) They have no matches to start a fire.
(b) It is too small, so there isn't enough meat on it.
(c) Their bodies are not used to meat, so they will be ill.
(d) They think rabbits are poisonous to eat.

12. Who does Constable Riggs hand the girls over to here?
(a) The headmistress of Moore River School.
(b) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.
(c) Gracie's family.
(d) Constable Melrose.

13. Why does Molly think she is too old for school?
(a) She has reached puberty and is old enough to marry.
(b) Aborigine girls finish school at ten years old.
(c) She has already grown up in black culture so is too old now to change.
(d) Everyone else at Moore River is much younger than her.

14. How does Molly's father interact with his child?
(a) Brings her gifts.
(b) Refuses to have anything to do with her.
(c) Takes her away.
(d) Tries to teach her to be English.

15. The girls meet two other half-caste girls, called Eva and Nora. What do these two girls think will happen to them soon?
(a) They will get a job on a station near their families.
(b) They will marry rich white men.
(c) They will be given jobs at a school in the city.
(d) They will carry on with education and go to university.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who volunteers to be their guide at the settlement?

3. What does the crewman teach them?

4. How do Gracie and Daisy react when Molly tells them of her plan to escape?

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

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