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

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

3. What strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?
(a) One of the clan goes missing.
(b) A bad storm.
(c) A stranger arrives.
(d) A loud boom.

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

5. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?
(a) Flesh eating monsters.
(b) Spirits of the ancestors.
(c) Mighty kings.
(d) Gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?

2. When did the first European settlers arrive in Western Australia?

3. What kind of weather is it always successful to hunt in?

4. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?

5. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

(see the answer key)

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