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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Violet Williams being punished?
(a) She swore at a teacher.
(b) She hit a teacher.
(c) She stole some food.
(d) She was caught kissing a boy.

2. What will actually happen to them?
(a) They will be imprisoned.
(b) They will be kept in a settlement for half-caste girls for the rest of their lives.
(c) They will be sent further away from their families to work on dairy farms.
(d) They will be sent to work as servants in England.

3. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Aborigines?
(a) No guns are allowed in the settlement.
(b) They will be able to live in houses rather than stick shelters.
(c) Food, and safety from the white people.
(d) It is a place where they can learn English.

4. Where is Maude's baby born?
(a) At their camp south of Jigalong.
(b) In the baby's father's house.
(c) In a hut in Jigalong.
(d) In the hospital at Perth.

5. Who is the captain of the Koolinda, the ship that will take them south to Fremantle?
(a) Captain Fremantle.
(b) Captain Smith.
(c) Captain Freeman.
(d) Captain Stirling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is 'the boob'?

2. What does the author think the girls really saw?

3. What do the girls think of the city?

4. When are the girls allowed sheets on their beds?

5. What did Mr. Keeling, the Superintendent at Jigalong depot, write in a letter that was ignored?

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