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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. How do they justify this?
(a) The food should be shared.
(b) They will die if they do not.
(c) The white people are evil.
(d) The spirits of the ancestors told them to.

2. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?
(a) Because he is wearing a uniform.
(b) Because they recognize his picture from the newspaper.
(c) Because the other men salute him.
(d) Because he tells them he is in charge.

3. What is the Canning Stock Route?
(a) A railway.
(b) A trade route.
(c) A long line of wells stretching across the desert.
(d) A trail used for transporting prisoners.

4. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?
(a) To clear an area to build houses on.
(b) For a religious ritual.
(c) To flush out animals, which are caught and eaten.
(d) To drive off the white men.

5. What does Captain Fremantle want?
(a) He wants their permission to name the area.
(b) He wants to teach them about white men and their society.
(c) He wants them to put some clothes on.
(d) He wants them to bring him and his men some food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the white men compared to?

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

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

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

5. What is the Mardudjara?

(see the answer key)

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