2. What is the punishment for running away?
(a) They are branded with a mark that identifies them as runaways.
(b) They are locked away from the other children permanently.
(c) Their heads are shaved and they are whipped.
(d) They are not allowed meat for a month.

3. Where does the policeman tell the girls they are going?
(a) To Perth.
(b) To Port Headland to catch a boat south.
(c) To a new home to the south.
(d) He does not tell them where they are going.

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

5. What precautions do the girls take when they think that their pursuers are close on their trail?
(a) They cover themselves in dirt so that they look more like black children.
(b) They only travel at night.
(c) They stay away from homesteads and don't light fires.
(d) They abandon the rabbit-proof fence and cut across the desert.

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

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

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

9. 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) Why the white people came to Australia in the first place.
(c) Where they are being taken and what will happen to them.
(d) Whether the slaves who built the pyramids were like them, or like the white men.

10. During the voyage, several members of the crew try to keep the girls entertained. What does one crewman tell them about?
(a) The ruins of ancient Rome.
(b) The pyramids of Egypt.
(c) England.
(d) America.

11. 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 sent to work as servants in England.
(c) They will be imprisoned.
(d) They will be kept in a settlement for half-caste girls for the rest of their lives.

12. 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 carry on with education and go to university.
(d) They will be given jobs at a school in the city.

13. 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.

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

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