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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author think the girls really saw?
(a) A horse.
(b) The matron of the Moore River school.
(c) An Aborigine man running to get away from the storm.
(d) The black tracker, searching for them.

2. 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.

3. Where do they stop off to hand the sick Aboriginal women over to the hospital?
(a) Port Headland.
(b) Marble Bar.
(c) Perth.
(d) Fremantle.

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

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

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

7. Why is Molly confident that the tracker will not be able to follow them?
(a) Their footprints will have been washed away by the rain.
(b) They haven't lit any fires or left any signs along the way.
(c) They know he is in a different part of Australia at the moment.
(d) He will assume they headed for the train station instead.

8. What are the girls supposed to use as a lavatory?
(a) Nothing; there is no lavatory.
(b) Buckets in the bathroom.
(c) An outside toilet across the snowy yard.
(d) A hole in the corner of the room.

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

10. Where is Maude's baby born?
(a) In the hospital at Perth.
(b) At their camp south of Jigalong.
(c) In the baby's father's house.
(d) In a hut in Jigalong.

11. Who does Constable Riggs hand the girls over to here?
(a) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.
(b) The headmistress of Moore River School.
(c) Gracie's family.
(d) Constable Melrose.

12. Who do the girls meet at Station 594, near Jigalong?
(a) Molly's father.
(b) Constable Riggs.
(c) Their aunt and cousins.
(d) Molly's mother.

13. Why does Martha warn the girls not to go near the cave?
(a) It is off limits and they will be punished if they are caught.
(b) It is slippery and dangerous.
(c) There are strange hairy creatures living in it.
(d) It is very dark inside and they might get lost.

14. 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) Chases them away from the fence.
(c) Gives them food, then reports that he saw them.
(d) Captures them and calls the police.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How do Maude's family feel about their new boss, the maintenance inspector?

4. Why do new arrivals at the school create hope?

5. How does the sight of the large river make Molly feel?

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