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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. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?
(a) In shelters made from branches and bark.
(b) In brick houses.
(c) In widened-out rabbit burrows.
(d) In small mud huts.

2. What does Captain Fremantle want?
(a) He wants them to put some clothes on.
(b) He wants their permission to name the area.
(c) He wants them to bring him and his men some food.
(d) He wants to teach them about white men and their society.

3. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?
(a) Because they recognize his picture from the newspaper.
(b) Because the other men salute him.
(c) Because he tells them he is in charge.
(d) Because he is wearing a uniform.

4. Who makes the decision about when teenage boys are ready to go into the Law?
(a) The boys themselves.
(b) The tribal elders.
(c) Their fathers.
(d) Their mothers.

5. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?
(a) Captain Fremantle.
(b) Captain Freeman.
(c) Major Edmund Lockyer.
(d) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many wives does Kundilla have?

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

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

4. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?

5. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

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