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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. How do the settlers allocate land?
(a) Each person is given a grant of land by the English government.
(b) The Aboriginals decide.
(c) The land is bought off the Aboriginals.
(d) They are allowed to choose land wherever they want.

2. What were the white construction workers doing?
(a) Building a barn.
(b) Sinking wells.
(c) Laying railway tracks.
(d) Building houses.

3. What did Captain Fremantle name the colony?
(a) Moore River Settlement.
(b) Swan River Colony.
(c) Jigalong.
(d) Perth.

4. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?
(a) They were passed down by the Dreamtime spirit beings.
(b) They were the first laws in Australia before the white people came.
(c) They have been around for a very long time.
(d) They were established by the king of the Aboriginals.

5. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?
(a) They don't believe in violence.
(b) The Queen tells them to.
(c) The white men have superior weapons.
(d) They believe that the white men are right.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?

2. What animal does Arthur Carberry bring to Australia with him?

3. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?

4. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?

5. What flag do the soldiers raise on the shore?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who behaves the worst in this book?

3. How does Moore River attempt to make the children culturally 'white' and forget their Aboriginal identity?

4. Why does Captain Stirling crash his ship?

5. Why are the Aborigines afraid of white men?

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

7. How are the girls treated on the boat?

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

9. Is it fair that Bidgup and Meedo are sent to a penal colony?

10. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Mardu people?

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