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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) It is degrading for them to run around with the darker skinned children.
(c) They are not getting a fair chance.
(d) They eat too much food.

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

5. How does the grandmother protect the new baby from any evil spirits nearby?
(a) She sprinkles water on the baby.
(b) She insults the baby.
(c) She covers the baby in a special salve.
(d) She places a protective amulet around the baby's neck.

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

7. What do a group of Aborigine men give the girls?
(a) Food and water.
(b) Shoes and coats.
(c) Matches and salt.
(d) Blankets.

8. What excuse does Molly give so that the three of them can stay behind when the other girls head out for school?
(a) She pretends that Daisy is sick.
(b) She says they need to empty the toilet bucket.
(c) She says they have forgotten their school books, so they have to go back to their room to get them.
(d) She pretends to still be asleep.

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

10. Where do they spend the night before traveling on to Moore River?
(a) A settlement at Mogumber.
(b) The East Perth Girl's Home.
(c) Inside the car.
(d) A hotel in Perth.

11. Why is Violet Williams being punished?
(a) She hit a teacher.
(b) She stole some food.
(c) She swore at a teacher.
(d) She was caught kissing a boy.

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

13. Who is the father of Maude's child?
(a) Her 'bilgur' (her betrothed).
(b) The Superintendent, Mr. Keeling.
(c) An inspector of the fence, Thomas Craig.
(d) Protector of Aborigines, Constable Riggs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the girls want to speak up when Miss Campbell introduces them to the staff member?

2. What did Mr. Keeling, the Superintendent at Jigalong depot, write in a letter that was ignored?

3. What do the girls see as they come into the harbor, that makes them homesick?

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

5. How does the Superintendent feel about the baby?

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