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

2. Why does Martha warn the girls not to go near the cave?
(a) It is off limits and they will be punished if they are caught.
(b) There are strange hairy creatures living in it.
(c) It is slippery and dangerous.
(d) It is very dark inside and they might get lost.

3. Why does Molly sometimes wish she didn't have light skin?
(a) She is afraid she will be taken away.
(b) She thinks the spirits will hate her.
(c) The other children insult her.
(d) She thinks darker skin is prettier.

4. Where do the girls spend their first night on the run?
(a) Under a tree.
(b) In a hollowed out rabbit burrow.
(c) Hidden in a barn.
(d) Out in the open, wrapped in their spare clothes.

5. Why did the Captain crash the ship?
(a) He was shocked by the sight of Captain Fremantle's boat already in the estuary.
(b) He was drunk.
(c) He wasn't watching where he was going.
(d) He saw the Aboriginals and thought they would make good servants.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the girls hear footsteps they quickly hide. What do the girls think they see?

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

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

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

5. What is the Mardudjara?

(see the answer key)

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