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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. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?
(a) Animals attacking their camp.
(b) White men fighting each other on the beach.
(c) White men and women, and their belongings, on the beach.
(d) White men carrying off Aboriginal women.

2. What do the girls want to ask him, but do not dare?
(a) Whether there are black people in other places in the world.
(b) Why the white people came to Australia in the first place.
(c) Where they are being taken and what will happen to them.
(d) Whether the slaves who built the pyramids were like them, or like the white men.

3. What do Bidgup and Meedo decide to do about the food problem?
(a) Take one of the white people's sheep.
(b) Move the whole tribe away into the desert.
(c) Take the white women hostage.
(d) Kill all the white people.

4. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?
(a) They are blocked by fences.
(b) All the animals have been frightened away.
(c) The white people have made hunting illegal.
(d) There are houses built on them.

5. How do the Mardudjara people feel about their work?
(a) They see it as exploitation.
(b) They see it as a form of kindness.
(c) They are angered by it, and plot revenge.
(d) They do not understand it and often do a bad job.

Short Answer Questions

1. The girls meet two other half-caste girls, called Eva and Nora. What do these two girls think will happen to them soon?

2. What does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?

3. What becomes a regular weekend event?

4. How is this carried out?

5. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?

(see the answer key)

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