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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 did Captain Fremantle name the colony?
(a) Jigalong.
(b) Perth.
(c) Swan River Colony.
(d) Moore River Settlement.

2. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?
(a) Captain James Stirling.
(b) Constable Riggs.
(c) Captain Freeman.
(d) Arthur Carberry.

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

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

5. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?
(a) Kundilla.
(b) Molly.
(c) Captain Fremantle.
(d) Maude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?

2. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?

3. What punishment are Bidgup and Meedo given?

4. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?

5. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?

(see the answer key)

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