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

2. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?
(a) He is given a bag of flour.
(b) He is whipped.
(c) He is given his wife back, but the white man is not punished.
(d) The white man is punished.

3. What is a wuungku?
(a) A shelter.
(b) A dress.
(c) A type of weapon.
(d) A ceremonial headdress.

4. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?
(a) Gods.
(b) Spirits of the ancestors.
(c) Flesh eating monsters.
(d) Mighty kings.

5. What do Bidgup and Meedo decide to do about the food problem?
(a) Take the white women hostage.
(b) Take one of the white people's sheep.
(c) Move the whole tribe away into the desert.
(d) Kill all the white people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Yellagonga?

2. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

3. What is the main reason why the Mardudjara people decide to leave their desert?

4. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?

5. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Kundilla respected?

2. Does Major Lockyear have a duty to protect Kundilla and his people?

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

4. Why are the Aborigines afraid of white men?

5. Describe how Molly and the girls escape Moore River.

6. Why have the colonists come to Australia?

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

8. Why did the first white men to encounter Aborigines in this area treat them so badly?

9. How are the girls treated on the boat?

10. Are the white men in chapter too greedy?

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