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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 teenage boys sent out into the Law?
(a) To gather firewood.
(b) To find a new clan to join.
(c) To fight white men.
(d) To become men.

2. What do Dora's clan see coming through the desert?
(a) White men droving a large herd of cattle.
(b) An army of white men.
(c) White men on a hunting trip.
(d) A train.

3. What are the white men compared to?
(a) Stampeding herds.
(b) A terrible storm.
(c) Flesh eating spirits.
(d) Bush fires out of control.

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

5. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?
(a) That the white people will declare war on them.
(b) That they will be driven from their lands.
(c) That the spirits of the ancestors will be angry.
(d) That they will have to work for the white people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Illustrated Melbourne Post say the Aboriginal people reacted to this act of goodwill?

2. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?

3. Why are the women settlers upset?

4. What is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?

5. How do the settlers allocate land?

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