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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 workers react to the violence?
(a) They leave.
(b) They kill some of the Mardudjara people in their sleep.
(c) They report the Mardudjara people to the authorities.
(d) They take more of the Mardudjara land as compensation.

2. What are the white men compared to?
(a) Flesh eating spirits.
(b) A terrible storm.
(c) Stampeding herds.
(d) Bush fires out of control.

3. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?
(a) He is speaking in verse.
(b) He is trying to talk in their language, but getting it wrong.
(c) He is talking about things they have never seen or heard of.
(d) He is speaking in his language.

4. 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 dug up a sacred site.
(c) The workers refused to share their food.
(d) The workers killed a Mardudjara tribe on the site.

5. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?
(a) Because white pirates had already killed men and taken women as sex slaves.
(b) Because they had received threatening letters from them.
(c) Because they were afraid of the strange colour of their skin.
(d) Because they had seen white men fighting from a distance.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do Aboriginal girls marry?

2. Who is the father of Maude's child?

3. How do the settlers allocate land?

4. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?

5. How do the Aboriginals cut their meat?

(see the answer key)

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