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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. What does Dora show the children how to make?
(a) Sun-hats.
(b) Shelters.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Knives.

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

3. What do the group have to do in order to adapt to life with white people?
(a) Learn English.
(b) Put clothes on.
(c) Wash.
(d) Become Christian.

4. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?
(a) Kundilla.
(b) Molly.
(c) Captain Fremantle.
(d) Maude.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had the red desert been the home of the Mardudjara people before they left?

2. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

3. How do they justify this?

4. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?

5. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?

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