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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: The Escape.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is the military outpost there for?
(a) One year.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Five years.

2. How do Molly and Gracie's family express their sorrow when the girls are taken?
(a) Cut themselves with sharp objects.
(b) Cut off all their hair.
(c) Take some of the white children in retaliation.
(d) Refuse to eat.

3. How does Captain Fremantle try to communicate when he realizes they don't understand him?
(a) He draws pictures in the sand.
(b) He gets a translator.
(c) He tries to use sign language.
(d) He writes it down instead.

4. What were the new settlers advised to do?
(a) Try to destroy Aboriginal culture.
(b) Shoot all Aboriginals.
(c) Keep up their Englishness.
(d) Take as much land as possible.

5. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?
(a) A percentage of the food produced must be given to Aboriginal people.
(b) Jobs must be provided on the farms for the Aboriginal people.
(c) Large areas of land were given to European farmers, without thought for the Aboriginal people living there.
(d) Areas of land were given back to Aboriginal people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the girls spend the night before moving on?

2. How do Gracie and Daisy react when Molly tells them of her plan to escape?

3. What does Molly decide that night?

4. When the girls meet a man on a bike while walking along the fence, what does the man do?

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

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