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

2. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?
(a) Northern Australia.
(b) Western Australia.
(c) Perth.
(d) New England.

3. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?
(a) One million square miles.
(b) One hundred thousand acres.
(c) One hundred miles.
(d) Five acres.

4. Why is Violet Williams being punished?
(a) She swore at a teacher.
(b) She stole some food.
(c) She was caught kissing a boy.
(d) She hit a teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?

2. What were the new settlers advised to do?

3. What is a wuungku?

4. What do the group have to do in order to adapt to life with white people?

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

(see the answer key)

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