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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: What Happened to Them? Where Are They Now?.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Molly's father interact with his child?
(a) Brings her gifts.
(b) Tries to teach her to be English.
(c) Takes her away.
(d) Refuses to have anything to do with her.

3. When Molly grows up, what job does she get?
(a) She does not get a job; she marries and has children instead.
(b) She works as an inspector of the rabbit-proof fence.
(c) She works as domestic help on a station.
(d) She becomes a teacher at the Moore River school.

4. In what century was the military outpost established on the shores of Western Australia?
(a) 1500s.
(b) 1900s.
(c) 1200s.
(d) 1800s.

5. What will actually happen to them?
(a) They will be kept in a settlement for half-caste girls for the rest of their lives.
(b) They will be imprisoned.
(c) They will be sent to work as servants in England.
(d) They will be sent further away from their families to work on dairy farms.

Short Answer Questions

1. On their walk around the grounds, what do they see a group of the children doing near the milking sheds?

2. What becomes a regular weekend event?

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

4. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?

5. What happens to Gracie when she reaches Wiluna?

(see the answer key)

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