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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 does Captain Fremantle name the area?
(a) New England.
(b) Western Australia.
(c) Perth.
(d) Northern Australia.
2. How long is the military outpost there for?
(a) Five years.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) One year.
(d) Twenty years.
3. What is the Mardudjara?
(a) Several tribes of Aboriginal people who live in the desert regions.
(b) A settlement for Aboriginal people.
(c) An Aboriginal god.
(d) An area of Australia where beautiful flowers grow.
4. How do the white workers react to the violence?
(a) They report the Mardudjara people to the authorities.
(b) They take more of the Mardudjara land as compensation.
(c) They kill some of the Mardudjara people in their sleep.
(d) They leave.
5. Why does Kundilla conclude that the white soldiers mean them no harm?
(a) The soldiers capture two Aboriginal men but then let them go unharmed.
(b) The soldiers are unarmed.
(c) The soldiers offer them gifts in friendship.
(d) The soldiers tell them they mean no harm.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?
2. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?
3. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?
4. How long had the red desert been the home of the Mardudjara people before they left?
5. Who makes the decision about when teenage boys are ready to go into the Law?
Short Essay Questions
1. Do Daisy and Gracie trust Molly as a leader?
2. Why does Captain Fremantle attempt to communicate with the Aborigines, and is he a good man for trying to do this?
3. The colonists are told to 'keep up their Englishness.' What does this involve? Why might they be asked to do this?
4. The girls meet other mixed race girls at the girls' home in Perth. How have these girls been misled?
5. Who behaves the worst in this book?
6. Why do you think the white people prevent the Aborigines from carrying out their traditional rituals and dances?
7. What is the girls' reaction to Perth?
8. Who is the bravest character in this story?
9. Did Molly, Daisy and Gracie gain anything by escaping from Moore River?
10. Do the Aborigines do enough to fight back?
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