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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: From the Deserts They Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?
(a) Because they would rather be tried under French law.
(b) Because their own laws and customs are not being respected.
(c) Because their gods will be angry.
(d) Because the English people have no right to be there.

2. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?
(a) Guns.
(b) Spears.
(c) Swords.
(d) Sticks.

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

4. When Golda spears one of the cattle, what happens to him?
(a) He is captured and whipped by the white men.
(b) He is captured and taken away by the white men.
(c) He is kicked and killed by the panicked animal.
(d) He is shot dead by the white men.

5. When did the first European settlers arrive in Western Australia?
(a) 1670.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1829.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?

2. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?

3. Why did some Mardudjara people react violently to white construction workers?

4. What is the Canning Stock Route?

5. How do they justify this?

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