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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 the Aboriginals have to do to survive?
(a) Become servants to white men and women.
(b) Become Christian.
(c) Run away into the desert.
(d) Declare war on England.

2. How many wives does Kundilla have?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Two.

3. How do they justify this?
(a) The white people are evil.
(b) They will die if they do not.
(c) The spirits of the ancestors told them to.
(d) The food should be shared.

4. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?
(a) Because their gods will be angry.
(b) Because their own laws and customs are not being respected.
(c) Because they would rather be tried under French law.
(d) Because the English people have no right to be there.

5. What is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?
(a) Money is given to the Aboriginals.
(b) All the land is given back to the Aboriginals.
(c) Free blankets are given to the Aboriginals.
(d) Aboriginal servants are given a holiday.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?

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

3. What do Bidgup and Meedo decide to do about the food problem?

4. How long is the military outpost there for?

5. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?

(see the answer key)

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