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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 Dora show the children how to make?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Sun-hats.
(c) Knives.
(d) Shelters.

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

3. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?
(a) They are blocked by fences.
(b) There are houses built on them.
(c) All the animals have been frightened away.
(d) The white people have made hunting illegal.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Illustrated Melbourne Post say the Aboriginal people reacted to this act of goodwill?

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

3. How do the settlers allocate land?

4. What do Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?

5. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the Aborigines afraid of white men?

2. How is Maude different from other Aborigines?

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

4. By moving to places like Jigalong, are the Aborigines losing their culture?

5. Why are policies introduced to remove 'half-caste' children from their families to take them to places such as Moore River?

6. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Mardu people?

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

8. Describe the grounds of Moore River.

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

10. Has the author been trying to give the reader any messages by telling them this story?

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