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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 does Captain Fremantle name the area?

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

3. What do Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?

4. What strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?

5. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why have the colonists come to Australia?

2. Who is to blame for the incident between the white workers who dug the sacred land, and the Mardu?

3. What is the girls' reaction to Perth?

4. How does Moore River attempt to make the children culturally 'white' and forget their Aboriginal identity?

5. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Mardu people?

6. In what ways were the girls' lives similar?

7. Overall, do the girls get treated badly on the journey?

8. What could the wildflowers, plants and animals that the girls see symbolize?

9. Why was the rabbit-proof fence built and does it fulfill the purpose it was built for?

10. How do Aborigine people hunt and kill their food?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss freedom in this story. How is it represented and what does the author say about it? How important is freedom? Who is free and who is not?

Essay Topic 2

In this story, white people dominate and oppress the Aboriginal people, and take their land away from them. The Aborigines cannot fight back, so the white people do what they want. Discuss the idea of 'might is right' and what the author is trying to tell us about it.

Essay Topic 3

The rabbit-proof fence is a very important object in this book. Discuss the symbolism of the fence. What does it stand for and why? Does it mean different things to different people?

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