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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. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?
(a) They were the first laws in Australia before the white people came.
(b) They were established by the king of the Aboriginals.
(c) They were passed down by the Dreamtime spirit beings.
(d) They have been around for a very long time.

2. What does Molly decide that night?
(a) That they must play along with the rules so that they are not punished.
(b) That she will never accept white culture.
(c) That they must escape.
(d) That she must protect Gracie and Daisy.

3. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?
(a) That they will be driven from their lands.
(b) That they will have to work for the white people.
(c) That the white people will declare war on them.
(d) That the spirits of the ancestors will be angry.

4. What do some mothers choose to do, out of fear that their children will be taken from them?
(a) Leave Jigalong forever to go back into the desert.
(b) Give birth in the bush rather than hospitals.
(c) Kill the babies' white fathers.
(d) Hide their babies in animal skins.

5. When are the girls allowed sheets on their beds?
(a) Only when special visitors come.
(b) Only if they have been well behaved.
(c) The beds always have sheets.
(d) Only on very cold nights.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the girls keep warm that night?

2. What are the white men compared to?

3. What happens at the big meeting held during the holidays at the end of the year?

4. What was the common view of half-caste children at this time?

5. What do the girls at Moore River wear as shoes?

(see the answer key)

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