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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Arthur Carberry bring to Australia with him?

2. How does Captain Fremantle try to communicate when he realizes they don't understand him?

3. How does the Illustrated Melbourne Post say the Aboriginal people reacted to this act of goodwill?

4. Who is Yellagonga?

5. What do Dora's clan see coming through the desert?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do the Aborigines do enough to fight back?

2. Why is Kundilla respected?

3. By moving to places like Jigalong, are the Aborigines losing their culture?

4. Why are policies introduced to remove 'half-caste' children from their families to take them to places such as Moore River?

5. Did anyone have a happy ending in this story?

6. Who behaves the worst in this book?

7. How do the girls' families react when the children are taken?

8. Why does Captain Stirling crash his ship?

9. Do Daisy and Gracie trust Molly as a leader?

10. Describe life in an Aboriginal tribe.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author make the reader sympathetic to the Aborigines, and to the girls? Discuss her use of language and the structure of the book, as well as how various people in the story are presented to us.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the idea of human rights in this story. Who is not given proper rights, and what rights have been denied? Do the Aborigines have any more right to the land than the white people do?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the symbolism of the wildflowers, plants and animals in this story. Why are there so many descriptions of nature?

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