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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. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?

2. How is this carried out?

3. How do the Mardudjara people interact with the white station owners?

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

5. When Golda spears one of the cattle, what happens to him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is it fair that Bidgup and Meedo are sent to a penal colony?

2. Does Major Lockyear have a duty to protect Kundilla and his people?

3. Is Kundilla too trusting?

4. Why is Molly confident that they will be able to get home?

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

6. Why have the colonists come to Australia?

7. Why is Kundilla respected?

8. The colonists are told to 'keep up their Englishness.' What does this involve? Why might they be asked to do this?

9. Are the white men in chapter too greedy?

10. Why has the arrival of white colonists been bad for the Aboriginal people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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