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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: The Escape.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When are the girls allowed sheets on their beds?
(a) Only when special visitors come.
(b) Only on very cold nights.
(c) The beds always have sheets.
(d) Only if they have been well behaved.

2. As they go through the city, what suddenly frightens the girls?
(a) A ship's horn.
(b) A gunshot.
(c) A tram.
(d) A church bell.

3. What happens at the big meeting held during the holidays at the end of the year?
(a) Traditional ceremonies and rituals are performed.
(b) War is declared on the white people.
(c) Marriages take place only at this time of year.
(d) They celebrate Christmas.

4. When do Aboriginal girls marry?
(a) Between five and ten years old.
(b) At twenty-five.
(c) Aboriginal people do not have a concept of marriage.
(d) As adolescents.

5. How does the sight of the large river make Molly feel?
(a) Happy to be out among nature again.
(b) Trapped, like a prisoner.
(c) Like a stranger in this part of the country.
(d) Afraid, because she has never seen anything like it.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the first European settlers arrive in Western Australia?

2. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?

3. Who volunteers to be their guide at the settlement?

4. Where is Maude's baby born?

5. The girls are then handed over again, this time to Constable Pollett. How do they travel to Port Headland?

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