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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 nationality is Captain Fremantle?
(a) British.
(b) French.
(c) Australian.
(d) American.

2. How do the white workers react to the violence?
(a) They kill some of the Mardudjara people in their sleep.
(b) They take more of the Mardudjara land as compensation.
(c) They report the Mardudjara people to the authorities.
(d) They leave.

3. What does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?
(a) He wants to find good land and become rich.
(b) He wants to join the army.
(c) He wants to find an Aboriginal to be his slave.
(d) He wants to send money home to his sick mother.

4. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?
(a) Large areas of land were given to European farmers, without thought for the Aboriginal people living there.
(b) A percentage of the food produced must be given to Aboriginal people.
(c) Jobs must be provided on the farms for the Aboriginal people.
(d) Areas of land were given back to Aboriginal people.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who makes the decision about when teenage boys are ready to go into the Law?

3. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?

4. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

5. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?

(see the answer key)

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