View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?
(a) They make it illegal for them to have children.
(b) They force them to wear clothes.
(c) They enslave them.
(d) They prevent them from doing their sacred rituals and dances.

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

3. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?
(a) Molly.
(b) Maude.
(c) Kundilla.
(d) Captain Fremantle.

4. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?
(a) To clear an area to build houses on.
(b) To flush out animals, which are caught and eaten.
(c) To drive off the white men.
(d) For a religious ritual.

5. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?
(a) Because the English people have no right to be there.
(b) Because they would rather be tried under French law.
(c) Because their own laws and customs are not being respected.
(d) Because their gods will be angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?

2. What does Captain Fremantle want?

3. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?

4. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?

5. How do the Mardudjara people feel about their work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Are the girls ever in any really serious danger as they walk to Jigalong?

4. Why was the rabbit-proof fence built and does it fulfill the purpose it was built for?

5. What is the girls' reaction to Perth?

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

7. How do Maude's family react to her pregnancy?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,370 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample