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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Molly confident that the tracker will not be able to follow them?
(a) They haven't lit any fires or left any signs along the way.
(b) He will assume they headed for the train station instead.
(c) Their footprints will have been washed away by the rain.
(d) They know he is in a different part of Australia at the moment.

3. What is the punishment for running away?
(a) They are not allowed meat for a month.
(b) They are branded with a mark that identifies them as runaways.
(c) Their heads are shaved and they are whipped.
(d) They are locked away from the other children permanently.

4. What excuse does Molly give so that the three of them can stay behind when the other girls head out for school?
(a) She says they need to empty the toilet bucket.
(b) She pretends to still be asleep.
(c) She pretends that Daisy is sick.
(d) She says they have forgotten their school books, so they have to go back to their room to get them.

5. Where do the girls spend the night before moving on?
(a) In the car.
(b) On the floor at the constable's house.
(c) In a nearby Aborigine settlement.
(d) Locked in the empty cells in the police station.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. Keeling advise the Department of Native Affairs that the half-caste children should be removed from Jigalong?

2. Who names the baby Molly?

3. Why does Martha warn the girls not to go near the cave?

4. When the girls hear footsteps they quickly hide. What do the girls think they see?

5. Where is Maude's baby born?

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