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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is 'the boob'?
(a) A torture device used for punishing bad children.
(b) A building where the food is kept.
(c) A building where girls are locked up as punishment.
(d) A scary pit that girls are made to spend the night in as punishment.

2. 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 have to keep moving around instead of sleeping.
(d) They sleep in the same bed.

3. When the girls meet a man on a bike while walking along the fence, what does the man do?
(a) Ignores their pleas for food and rides away.
(b) Captures them and calls the police.
(c) Chases them away from the fence.
(d) Gives them food, then reports that he saw them.

4. Why does Mr. Keeling advise the Department of Native Affairs that the half-caste children should be removed from Jigalong?
(a) It is degrading for them to run around with the darker skinned children.
(b) They eat too much food.
(c) They are an embarrassment.
(d) They are not getting a fair chance.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

12. What does Molly decide that night?
(a) That they must escape.
(b) That she must protect Gracie and Daisy.
(c) That they must play along with the rules so that they are not punished.
(d) That she will never accept white culture.

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

14. 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 carry on with education and go to university.
(b) They will marry rich white men.
(c) They will be given jobs at a school in the city.
(d) They will get a job on a station near their families.

15. What makes Molly think the dormitory looks like a jail?
(a) It is a black, imposing building with a high wall around it.
(b) The doors are padlocked and there are bars at the windows.
(c) There are no windows.
(d) There are guards and guard-dogs outside.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Daisy?

2. Why was Jiigalong established?

3. What do some mothers choose to do, out of fear that their children will be taken from them?

4. What becomes a regular weekend event?

5. Where does the policeman tell the girls they are going?

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