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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: The Moore River Native Settlement, 1931.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the girls keep warm that night?
(a) They light a fire.
(b) They have to keep moving around instead of sleeping.
(c) They sleep in the same bed.
(d) They put on all the clothes they own at once.

2. Why is Violet Williams being punished?
(a) She stole some food.
(b) She was caught kissing a boy.
(c) She hit a teacher.
(d) She swore at a teacher.

3. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?
(a) That the white men are human beings and not spirits.
(b) That all their beliefs are false.
(c) How to use guns.
(d) A secret hiding place from the white men.

4. When do Aboriginal girls marry?
(a) Aboriginal people do not have a concept of marriage.
(b) At twenty-five.
(c) Between five and ten years old.
(d) As adolescents.

5. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?
(a) All the animals have been frightened away.
(b) There are houses built on them.
(c) The white people have made hunting illegal.
(d) They are blocked by fences.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the usual breakfast?

2. Who volunteers to be their guide at the settlement?

3. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?

4. Why was Jiigalong established?

5. On their walk around the grounds, what do they see a group of the children doing near the milking sheds?

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