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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the girls spend the night before moving on?
(a) In a nearby Aborigine settlement.
(b) Locked in the empty cells in the police station.
(c) On the floor at the constable's house.
(d) In the car.

2. Why is Molly confident that the tracker will not be able to follow them?
(a) He will assume they headed for the train station instead.
(b) Their footprints will have been washed away by the rain.
(c) They know he is in a different part of Australia at the moment.
(d) They haven't lit any fires or left any signs along the way.

3. How does the sight of the large river make Molly feel?
(a) Like a stranger in this part of the country.
(b) Afraid, because she has never seen anything like it.
(c) Trapped, like a prisoner.
(d) Happy to be out among nature again.

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

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

6. What do the girls see as they come into the harbor, that makes them homesick?
(a) A wheat silo with a picture of a red dingo on it, which they recognize from flour sacks given to Aborigine people at Jigalong.
(b) The rabbit-proof fence.
(c) A huge water tank, like those at the depot at Jigalong.
(d) A food factory with a picture of a yellow chicken on it, which they recognize from food packets given to Aborigine people at Jigalong.

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

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

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

10. Where is Maude's baby born?
(a) In a hut in Jigalong.
(b) In the hospital at Perth.
(c) At their camp south of Jigalong.
(d) In the baby's father's house.

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

12. What becomes a regular weekend event?
(a) Hunting and gathering traditional foods.
(b) A ritual dance.
(c) Pilgrimages into the Law.
(d) Telling stories of the ancestors around the communal fire.

13. Who volunteers to be their guide at the settlement?
(a) Martha Jones.
(b) Edna Green.
(c) Bill.
(d) Polly Martin.

14. Who names the baby Molly?
(a) Maude's father.
(b) Maude.
(c) The baby's grandmother.
(d) The father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Jiigalong established?

2. Why does Gracie leave the other two girls?

3. What will actually happen to them?

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

5. How does the grandmother protect the new baby from any evil spirits nearby?

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