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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 Mr. Keeling advise the Department of Native Affairs that the half-caste children should be removed from Jigalong?
(a) They eat too much food.
(b) They are not getting a fair chance.
(c) It is degrading for them to run around with the darker skinned children.
(d) They are an embarrassment.

2. Why is Violet Williams being punished?
(a) She hit a teacher.
(b) She swore at a teacher.
(c) She stole some food.
(d) She was caught kissing a boy.

3. How does the Superintendent feel about the baby?
(a) He says nice things.
(b) He is embarrassed that she was born at his station.
(c) He is angry with Maude.
(d) He thinks she is disgusting.

4. Why does the Protector of Aborigines think there is no point in trying to recapture Molly and Daisy?
(a) They would have to be separated or locked up, and this would be worse than being in the bush.
(b) They would only keep escaping again, because they know how to survive in the bush.
(c) They would become violent if forced away from their families again.
(d) They obviously think of themselves as black.

5. Why was Jiigalong established?
(a) As a base for maintenance workers on the rabbit-proof fence.
(b) As a colony for new European settlers.
(c) As a settlement for Aborigines.
(d) As a school to teach Aboriginal children to speak English.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the girls keep warm that night?

2. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?

3. How do the white workers react to the violence?

4. Why are the girls frightened when they get off the boat?

5. When the girls reach the heathlands, what do they see?

(see the answer key)

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