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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 Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?
(a) They believe that the white men are right.
(b) They don't believe in violence.
(c) The Queen tells them to.
(d) The white men have superior weapons.

2. 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.

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

4. Why did some Mardudjara people react violently to white construction workers?
(a) The workers burned down large areas of brush to build on.
(b) The workers dug up a sacred site.
(c) The workers refused to share their food.
(d) The workers killed a Mardudjara tribe on the site.

5. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?
(a) They are blocked by fences.
(b) The white people have made hunting illegal.
(c) There are houses built on them.
(d) All the animals have been frightened away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Captain Fremantle name the colony?

2. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?

3. In what century was the military outpost established on the shores of Western Australia?

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

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

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