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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 the Aboriginals cut their meat?
(a) With knives and forks.
(b) With their teeth.
(c) With bears' teeth.
(d) With sharp stones.

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

3. What kind of weather is it always successful to hunt in?
(a) Misty: the animals can't see the hunters coming.
(b) Rain: the tracks are easy to see, and the animals are less alert.
(c) Windy: the wind blows the hunters' scent away.
(d) Sunny: it is easier to see and run in sunny weather.

4. How long is the military outpost there for?
(a) Five years.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) One year.
(d) Twenty years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Yellagonga?

2. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?

3. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?

4. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?

5. How does Captain Fremantle try to communicate when he realizes they don't understand him?

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