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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. What do a group of Aborigine men give the girls?
(a) Shoes and coats.
(b) Matches and salt.
(c) Blankets.
(d) Food and water.

2. What is a wuungku?
(a) A type of weapon.
(b) A dress.
(c) A ceremonial headdress.
(d) A shelter.

3. What does Molly decide that night?
(a) That they must play along with the rules so that they are not punished.
(b) That she will never accept white culture.
(c) That they must escape.
(d) That she must protect Gracie and Daisy.

4. How does the sight of the large river make Molly feel?
(a) Trapped, like a prisoner.
(b) Afraid, because she has never seen anything like it.
(c) Like a stranger in this part of the country.
(d) Happy to be out among nature again.

5. What punishment are Bidgup and Meedo given?
(a) Imprisonment in a Penal Colony.
(b) They are hung.
(c) They are whipped.
(d) They are forced into slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?

2. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

3. What does the author think the girls really saw?

4. What do the girls at Moore River wear as shoes?

5. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

(see the answer key)

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