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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Molly's father interact with his child?
(a) Brings her gifts.
(b) Takes her away.
(c) Refuses to have anything to do with her.
(d) Tries to teach her to be English.

2. What is the usual breakfast?
(a) Cold stew.
(b) Weevily porridge.
(c) Toast and jam.
(d) A glass of water flavored with sugar.

3. When the girls meet a man on a bike while walking along the fence, what does the man do?
(a) Captures them and calls the police.
(b) Chases them away from the fence.
(c) Gives them food, then reports that he saw them.
(d) Ignores their pleas for food and rides away.

4. Why can't the girls eat the rabbit that Gracie catches?
(a) They think rabbits are poisonous to eat.
(b) They have no matches to start a fire.
(c) Their bodies are not used to meat, so they will be ill.
(d) It is too small, so there isn't enough meat on it.

5. Why does the Protector of Aborigines think there is no point in trying to recapture Molly and Daisy?
(a) They would have to be separated or locked up, and this would be worse than being in the bush.
(b) They would become violent if forced away from their families again.
(c) They would only keep escaping again, because they know how to survive in the bush.
(d) They obviously think of themselves as black.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls at Moore River wear as shoes?

2. The girls meet two other half-caste girls, called Eva and Nora. What do these two girls think will happen to them soon?

3. What is the punishment for running away?

4. Why does Mrs. Flannigan call the Superintendent of the Moore River Settlement to tell him that the girls were at her house?

5. How old is Daisy?

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