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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: The Decline of Aboriginal Society.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?
(a) Because they were afraid of the strange colour of their skin.
(b) Because they had received threatening letters from them.
(c) Because white pirates had already killed men and taken women as sex slaves.
(d) Because they had seen white men fighting from a distance.

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

3. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?
(a) Capturing Aboriginals to sell as slaves.
(b) Looking for lost treasure.
(c) Sealing and whaling.
(d) Trying to find a new home.

4. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?
(a) To drive off the white men.
(b) To clear an area to build houses on.
(c) To flush out animals, which are caught and eaten.
(d) For a religious ritual.

5. What did Captain Fremantle name the colony?
(a) Jigalong.
(b) Perth.
(c) Moore River Settlement.
(d) Swan River Colony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?

2. What do Bidgup and Meedo decide to do about the food problem?

3. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?

4. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?

5. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?

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