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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: The Swan River Colony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?
(a) He is speaking in his language.
(b) He is speaking in verse.
(c) He is talking about things they have never seen or heard of.
(d) He is trying to talk in their language, but getting it wrong.

2. How do the Aboriginals cut their meat?
(a) With sharp stones.
(b) With their teeth.
(c) With knives and forks.
(d) With bears' teeth.

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

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

5. What kind of weather is it always successful to hunt in?
(a) Sunny: it is easier to see and run in sunny weather.
(b) Windy: the wind blows the hunters' scent away.
(c) Rain: the tracks are easy to see, and the animals are less alert.
(d) Misty: the animals can't see the hunters coming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?

2. Why are the women settlers upset?

3. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?

4. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?

5. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?

(see the answer key)

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