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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 is a wuungku?

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

3. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?

4. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

5. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Maude different from other Aborigines?

2. Describe life in an Aboriginal tribe.

3. Do the white people try to help the Aborigines?

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

5. Do the Aborigines do enough to fight back?

6. Why do the white people give up the search for Molly and Daisy?

7. How do the white people at the depot react to the birth of the mixed race child?

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

9. How do the Aboriginal people react to Captain Fremantle and the arrival of Stirling and his colonists?

10. Why does Captain Stirling crash his ship?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss identity. Why is identity important and who is it important to? How do the white people attempt to crush Aborigine identity?

Essay Topic 3

How is prejudice represented in this story? Who is prejudiced and why, and what does this cause? What is the author trying to tell the reader about prejudice, and how does she do this?

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