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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: The Journey South.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Molly and Gracie's family express their sorrow when the girls are taken?
(a) Refuse to eat.
(b) Take some of the white children in retaliation.
(c) Cut themselves with sharp objects.
(d) Cut off all their hair.

2. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?
(a) There is a large storm coming.
(b) Isolation and lack of weapons make them vulnerable.
(c) The Aboriginal men fight them off.
(d) They do not have enough food.

3. How does the Illustrated Melbourne Post say the Aboriginal people reacted to this act of goodwill?
(a) With gratitude.
(b) They refused it.
(c) They did not understand.
(d) They were angry.

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

5. What strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?
(a) A bad storm.
(b) One of the clan goes missing.
(c) A stranger arrives.
(d) A loud boom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the Aboriginals have to do to survive?

3. Who is the father of Maude's child?

4. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?

5. What were the new settlers advised to do?

(see the answer key)

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