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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 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.

2. 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 put on all the clothes they own at once.
(d) They sleep in the same bed.

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

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

5. 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) Gives them food, then reports that he saw them.
(d) Chases them away from the fence.

6. What is Molly's plan?
(a) To find the rabbit-proof fence and follow it to Jigalong.
(b) To stow away on a ship heading north, then walk to Jigalong.
(c) To get the train back to Jigalong.
(d) To hitch-hike and ask for help from farms and villages.

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

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

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

10. The girls are then handed over again, this time to Constable Pollett. How do they travel to Port Headland?
(a) They walk.
(b) By car.
(c) By boat.
(d) By train.

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

12. How does the Superintendent feel about the baby?
(a) He is angry with Maude.
(b) He thinks she is disgusting.
(c) He says nice things.
(d) He is embarrassed that she was born at his station.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Violet Williams being punished?

2. Who volunteers to be their guide at the settlement?

3. Why does Molly sometimes wish she didn't have light skin?

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

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

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