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

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

3. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?
(a) They offered to take them to an island, then left them there.
(b) They pretended to be gods.
(c) They offered them poisoned food.
(d) They told them there was good land further down the coast.

4. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?
(a) They don't believe in violence.
(b) The Queen tells them to.
(c) They believe that the white men are right.
(d) The white men have superior weapons.

5. What do Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?
(a) A ship's horn.
(b) Gunfire.
(c) Men's voices and cries of frightened women.
(d) Roars of dangerous animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?

2. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?

3. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?

4. How is this carried out?

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

(see the answer key)

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