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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 is this carried out?
(a) Picnics, fox-hunts and balls.
(b) Sending out patrols into the bush.
(c) Building very grand houses.
(d) Taking Aboriginals as servants.

2. When Golda spears one of the cattle, what happens to him?
(a) He is kicked and killed by the panicked animal.
(b) He is captured and taken away by the white men.
(c) He is captured and whipped by the white men.
(d) He is shot dead by the white men.

3. How does the Illustrated Melbourne Post say the Aboriginal people reacted to this act of goodwill?
(a) They did not understand.
(b) With gratitude.
(c) They were angry.
(d) They refused it.

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

5. What is the main reason why the Mardudjara people decide to leave their desert?
(a) Fear of reprisals from the white men.
(b) They were forced to leave by the white men.
(c) They wanted the comforts of white society.
(d) They were finding it hard to find water.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?

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

3. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

4. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?

5. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the girls feeling throughout their journey south to Moore River?

2. What could the wildflowers, plants and animals that the girls see symbolize?

3. Do Daisy and Gracie trust Molly as a leader?

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

5. Describe what happens when some white workers violate sacred Mardu land.

6. Why does Captain Fremantle attempt to communicate with the Aborigines, and is he a good man for trying to do this?

7. Who is the bravest character in this story?

8. Did Molly, Daisy and Gracie gain anything by escaping from Moore River?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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