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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 Aboriginal people sleep?
(a) In brick houses.
(b) In widened-out rabbit burrows.
(c) In small mud huts.
(d) In shelters made from branches and bark.

2. 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.

3. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?
(a) That they will take away the women.
(b) That they will take their land.
(c) That they will try to kill all the Aboriginals in the camp.
(d) That they will anger the spirits.

4. Who is Yellagonga?
(a) A war-loving tribal leader.
(b) An Aboriginal god.
(c) A peace-loving tribal leader.
(d) A powerful spirit ancestor.

5. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?
(a) Isolation and lack of weapons make them vulnerable.
(b) There is a large storm coming.
(c) They do not have enough food.
(d) The Aboriginal men fight them off.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?

3. How do the Aboriginals cut their meat?

4. How are black servants paid?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the white people prevent the Aborigines from carrying out their traditional rituals and dances?

2. Describe life in an Aboriginal tribe.

3. Is Kundilla too trusting?

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

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

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

7. Are the white men in chapter too greedy?

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

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

10. Why are the Aborigines afraid of white men?

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