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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Jigalong, 1907-1931.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?
(a) They make it illegal for them to have children.
(b) They enslave them.
(c) They prevent them from doing their sacred rituals and dances.
(d) They force them to wear clothes.

2. Why does Kundilla conclude that the white soldiers mean them no harm?
(a) The soldiers tell them they mean no harm.
(b) The soldiers capture two Aboriginal men but then let them go unharmed.
(c) The soldiers offer them gifts in friendship.
(d) The soldiers are unarmed.

3. What is the Canning Stock Route?
(a) A trade route.
(b) A railway.
(c) A long line of wells stretching across the desert.
(d) A trail used for transporting prisoners.

4. How are black servants paid?
(a) With rice.
(b) They are not paid with anything.
(c) With money.
(d) With warm blankets.

5. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Aborigines?
(a) No guns are allowed in the settlement.
(b) They will be able to live in houses rather than stick shelters.
(c) It is a place where they can learn English.
(d) Food, and safety from the white people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?

2. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

3. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

4. What is a wuungku?

5. What did Captain Fremantle name the colony?

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