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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. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?
(a) Flesh eating monsters.
(b) Gods.
(c) Mighty kings.
(d) Spirits of the ancestors.

2. On their walk around the grounds, what do they see a group of the children doing near the milking sheds?
(a) Stealing extra food.
(b) Playing rounders.
(c) Trying to escape.
(d) Huddling together for warmth.

3. How long is the military outpost there for?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Twenty years.

4. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?
(a) He is given his wife back, but the white man is not punished.
(b) He is given a bag of flour.
(c) The white man is punished.
(d) He is whipped.

5. Why does Kundilla conclude that the white soldiers mean them no harm?
(a) The soldiers are unarmed.
(b) The soldiers tell them they mean no harm.
(c) The soldiers offer them gifts in friendship.
(d) The soldiers capture two Aboriginal men but then let them go unharmed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls want to ask him, but do not dare?

2. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?

3. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?

4. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Aborigines?

5. When the girls meet a man on a bike while walking along the fence, what does the man do?

(see the answer key)

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