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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. How is this carried out?
(a) Taking Aboriginals as servants.
(b) Building very grand houses.
(c) Sending out patrols into the bush.
(d) Picnics, fox-hunts and balls.

2. 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.

3. What do Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?
(a) A ship's horn.
(b) Men's voices and cries of frightened women.
(c) Roars of dangerous animals.
(d) Gunfire.

4. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?
(a) Challenger.
(b) Amity.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Koolinda.

5. 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 their land.
(d) That they will take away the women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?

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

3. What punishment are Bidgup and Meedo given?

4. Who makes the decision about when teenage boys are ready to go into the Law?

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

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