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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 weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?
(a) Sticks.
(b) Guns.
(c) Swords.
(d) Spears.

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

3. How are black servants paid?
(a) They are not paid with anything.
(b) With warm blankets.
(c) With rice.
(d) With money.

4. Why are the women settlers upset?
(a) Because the Aboriginals are not wearing clothes.
(b) Because they are hungry.
(c) Because the rain is destroying their possessions.
(d) Because they are afraid of the Aboriginals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?

2. By what name are the Mardudjara people referred to?

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

4. What do the Aboriginals have to do to survive?

5. How do they justify this?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Captain Stirling crash his ship?

2. How are the girls treated on the boat?

3. Describe the grounds of Moore River.

4. Is there anything positive about Moore River?

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

6. Is Moore River a nice place?

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

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

9. What is the girls' reaction to Perth?

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

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