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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 did the Aboriginal people discover too late?
(a) How to use guns.
(b) A secret hiding place from the white men.
(c) That all their beliefs are false.
(d) That the white men are human beings and not spirits.

2. 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.

3. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?
(a) He is speaking in his language.
(b) He is trying to talk in their language, but getting it wrong.
(c) He is speaking in verse.
(d) He is talking about things they have never seen or heard of.

4. What animal does Arthur Carberry bring to Australia with him?
(a) Lions.
(b) Foxes.
(c) Mice.
(d) Horses.

5. How do the white workers react to the violence?
(a) They kill some of the Mardudjara people in their sleep.
(b) They report the Mardudjara people to the authorities.
(c) They leave.
(d) They take more of the Mardudjara land as compensation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What punishment are Bidgup and Meedo given?

2. How long had the red desert been the home of the Mardudjara people before they left?

3. How many wives does Kundilla have?

4. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

5. How do the settlers allocate land?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do the white people try to help the Aborigines?

2. Should Golda have been punished for killing the white men's steer? Was the way he was punished right?

3. How do the girls' families react when the children are taken?

4. How do Maude's family react to her pregnancy?

5. Overall, do the girls get treated badly on the journey?

6. The colonists are told to 'keep up their Englishness.' What does this involve? Why might they be asked to do this?

7. How do children at Moore River attempt to stay happy?

8. Is Moore River a nice place?

9. Why have the colonists come to Australia?

10. Should the Aborigines take more action against the white people in chapter two?

(see the answer keys)

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