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

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

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

4. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?
(a) How to use guns.
(b) That the white men are human beings and not spirits.
(c) A secret hiding place from the white men.
(d) That all their beliefs are false.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?

2. In what century was the military outpost established on the shores of Western Australia?

3. What is the Canning Stock Route?

4. What is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?

5. How long is the military outpost there for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Kundilla respected?

2. How is Maude different from other Aborigines?

3. Who is to blame for the incident between the white workers who dug the sacred land, and the Mardu?

4. What does Constable Melrose do with the girls at Marble Bar?

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

6. Describe the grounds of Moore River.

7. Why does Captain Stirling crash his ship?

8. Why has the arrival of white colonists been bad for the Aboriginal people?

9. How do the Aboriginal people react to Captain Fremantle and the arrival of Stirling and his colonists?

10. Who behaves the worst in this book?

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