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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. As they go through the city, what suddenly frightens the girls?
(a) A tram.
(b) A church bell.
(c) A ship's horn.
(d) A gunshot.

5. How do Gracie and Daisy react when Molly tells them of her plan to escape?
(a) They are excited.
(b) They think she is joking.
(c) They do not want to leave.
(d) They are frightened.

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

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

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

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

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

11. Why does Molly sometimes wish she didn't have light skin?
(a) She is afraid she will be taken away.
(b) She thinks the spirits will hate her.
(c) She thinks darker skin is prettier.
(d) The other children insult her.

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When are the girls allowed sheets on their beds?

2. How do the girls keep warm that night?

3. What is the usual breakfast?

4. Why can't the girls eat the rabbit that Gracie catches?

5. The girls are then handed over again, this time to Constable Pollett. How do they travel to Port Headland?

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