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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. Why did some Mardudjara people react violently to white construction workers?
(a) The workers burned down large areas of brush to build on.
(b) The workers refused to share their food.
(c) The workers dug up a sacred site.
(d) The workers killed a Mardudjara tribe on the site.

2. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?
(a) Killing the white men.
(b) Killing all of the cattle.
(c) Stealing all of the cattle.
(d) Taking one of the cattle.

3. Why did the Captain crash the ship?
(a) He was shocked by the sight of Captain Fremantle's boat already in the estuary.
(b) He wasn't watching where he was going.
(c) He saw the Aboriginals and thought they would make good servants.
(d) He was drunk.

4. What is a wuungku?
(a) A ceremonial headdress.
(b) A shelter.
(c) A dress.
(d) A type of weapon.

5. What do Dora's clan see coming through the desert?
(a) A train.
(b) White men droving a large herd of cattle.
(c) An army of white men.
(d) White men on a hunting trip.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Yellagonga?

3. What is the Mardudjara?

4. How does the Superintendent feel about the baby?

5. What do the Aboriginals have to do to survive?

(see the answer key)

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