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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What becomes a regular weekend event?
(a) Pilgrimages into the Law.
(b) Hunting and gathering traditional foods.
(c) A ritual dance.
(d) Telling stories of the ancestors around the communal fire.

2. 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 annoyed that they asked her for food.
(b) She believes that they should be kept away from their black families.
(c) She is concerned for their safety.
(d) She is afraid of them.

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

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

5. What does the crewman teach them?
(a) How to mend their clothes and shoes.
(b) How to find the Southern Cross, a star constellation that can guide them if they are lost.
(c) To speak better English, so they will get on better at the settlement.
(d) How to sail a ship.

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 hitch-hike and ask for help from farms and villages.
(d) To get the train back to Jigalong.

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

8. Where do the girls spend the night before moving on?
(a) Locked in the empty cells in the police station.
(b) In the car.
(c) On the floor at the constable's house.
(d) In a nearby Aborigine settlement.

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

10. On their walk around the grounds, what do they see a group of the children doing near the milking sheds?
(a) Playing rounders.
(b) Huddling together for warmth.
(c) Stealing extra food.
(d) Trying to escape.

11. 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 to still be asleep.
(b) She says they have forgotten their school books, so they have to go back to their room to get them.
(c) She says they need to empty the toilet bucket.
(d) She pretends that Daisy is sick.

12. Why do the girls want to speak up when Miss Campbell introduces them to the staff member?
(a) They want to tell her that she pronounced their names wrong.
(b) They want to tell her that they do not want to be separated.
(c) They want to tell her that they are from Jigalong, not Nullagine.
(d) They want to tell her that they are very hungry.

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

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

15. What was the common view of half-caste children at this time?
(a) That they would not love their darker skinned families.
(b) That they were monsters.
(c) That they were inferior to the 'pure whites' and 'pure blacks.'
(d) That they were more intelligent than other Aboriginal children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Constable Riggs hand the girls over to here?

2. What do the girls at Moore River wear as shoes?

3. The girls meet two other half-caste girls, called Eva and Nora. What do these two girls think will happen to them soon?

4. What are the girls told they are not allowed to do at the school?

5. Where do they spend the night before traveling on to Moore River?

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