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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?
(a) He is given his wife back, but the white man is not punished.
(b) The white man is punished.
(c) He is whipped.
(d) He is given a bag of flour.

2. What does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?
(a) He wants to join the army.
(b) He wants to find an Aboriginal to be his slave.
(c) He wants to find good land and become rich.
(d) He wants to send money home to his sick mother.

3. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?
(a) They make it illegal for them to have children.
(b) They prevent them from doing their sacred rituals and dances.
(c) They enslave them.
(d) They force them to wear clothes.

4. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?
(a) Guns.
(b) Swords.
(c) Spears.
(d) Sticks.

5. What do the Aboriginals have to do to survive?
(a) Become Christian.
(b) Become servants to white men and women.
(c) Declare war on England.
(d) Run away into the desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?

2. How do the Mardudjara people interact with the white station owners?

3. How long is the military outpost there for?

4. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

5. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Moore River a nice place?

2. Who behaves the worst in this book?

3. Why are the Aborigines afraid of white men?

4. Is there anything positive about Moore River?

5. Why do the white people give up the search for Molly and Daisy?

6. Do the Aborigines receive justice in chapter three?

7. Why did the first white men to encounter Aborigines in this area treat them so badly?

8. Does Major Lockyear have a duty to protect Kundilla and his people?

9. The girls meet other mixed race girls at the girls' home in Perth. How have these girls been misled?

10. How do the other children treat Molly, and why do you think they react to her this way?

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