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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: The Decline of Aboriginal Society.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Bidgup and Meedo decide to do about the food problem?
(a) Take the white women hostage.
(b) Move the whole tribe away into the desert.
(c) Kill all the white people.
(d) Take one of the white people's sheep.

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

3. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?
(a) White men fighting each other on the beach.
(b) White men carrying off Aboriginal women.
(c) Animals attacking their camp.
(d) White men and women, and their belongings, on the beach.

4. What does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?
(a) He wants to find an Aboriginal to be his slave.
(b) He wants to find good land and become rich.
(c) He wants to join the army.
(d) He wants to send money home to his sick mother.

5. Who makes the decision about when teenage boys are ready to go into the Law?
(a) The tribal elders.
(b) Their fathers.
(c) The boys themselves.
(d) Their mothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?

2. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?

3. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?

4. What are the white men compared to?

5. What strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?

(see the answer key)

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