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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The girls meet two other half-caste girls, called Eva and Nora. What do these two girls think will happen to them soon?
(a) They will get a job on a station near their families.
(b) They will carry on with education and go to university.
(c) They will be given jobs at a school in the city.
(d) They will marry rich white men.

2. Why does Molly think she is too old for school?
(a) She has reached puberty and is old enough to marry.
(b) Aborigine girls finish school at ten years old.
(c) Everyone else at Moore River is much younger than her.
(d) She has already grown up in black culture so is too old now to change.

3. What does the crewman teach them?
(a) How to sail a ship.
(b) How to find the Southern Cross, a star constellation that can guide them if they are lost.
(c) How to mend their clothes and shoes.
(d) To speak better English, so they will get on better at the settlement.

4. What was the common view of half-caste children at this time?
(a) That they were monsters.
(b) That they would not love their darker skinned families.
(c) That they were more intelligent than other Aboriginal children.
(d) That they were inferior to the 'pure whites' and 'pure blacks.'

5. How does the sight of the large river make Molly feel?
(a) Trapped, like a prisoner.
(b) Afraid, because she has never seen anything like it.
(c) Like a stranger in this part of the country.
(d) Happy to be out among nature again.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Molly and Gracie's family express their sorrow when the girls are taken?

3. What do the girls see as they come into the harbor, that makes them homesick?

4. As they go through the city, what suddenly frightens the girls?

5. Where do they spend the night before traveling on to Moore River?

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