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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 are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?
(a) That the white people will declare war on them.
(b) That they will have to work for the white people.
(c) That the spirits of the ancestors will be angry.
(d) That they will be driven from their lands.

2. Why does Molly sometimes wish she didn't have light skin?
(a) The other children insult her.
(b) She thinks the spirits will hate her.
(c) She is afraid she will be taken away.
(d) She thinks darker skin is prettier.

3. How does Molly's father interact with his child?
(a) Refuses to have anything to do with her.
(b) Takes her away.
(c) Tries to teach her to be English.
(d) Brings her gifts.

4. Who is the captain of the Koolinda, the ship that will take them south to Fremantle?
(a) Captain Stirling.
(b) Captain Fremantle.
(c) Captain Smith.
(d) Captain Freeman.

5. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?
(a) That they will take away the women.
(b) That they will take their land.
(c) That they will anger the spirits.
(d) That they will try to kill all the Aboriginals in the camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the white men compared to?

2. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

3. How does Captain Fremantle try to communicate when he realizes they don't understand him?

4. What do some mothers choose to do, out of fear that their children will be taken from them?

5. Who is the father of Maude's child?

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