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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?
(a) Captain Fremantle.
(b) Major Edmund Lockyer.
(c) Captain Freeman.
(d) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.

2. When did the first European settlers arrive in Western Australia?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1670.
(c) 1829.
(d) 1941.

3. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?
(a) Because their own laws and customs are not being respected.
(b) Because the English people have no right to be there.
(c) Because they would rather be tried under French law.
(d) Because their gods will be angry.

4. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?
(a) Sealing and whaling.
(b) Capturing Aboriginals to sell as slaves.
(c) Trying to find a new home.
(d) Looking for lost treasure.

5. What punishment are Bidgup and Meedo given?
(a) They are whipped.
(b) They are hung.
(c) Imprisonment in a Penal Colony.
(d) They are forced into slavery.

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

7. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?
(a) American.
(b) Australian.
(c) British.
(d) French.

8. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?
(a) To clear an area to build houses on.
(b) For a religious ritual.
(c) To flush out animals, which are caught and eaten.
(d) To drive off the white men.

9. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?
(a) They told them there was good land further down the coast.
(b) They offered to take them to an island, then left them there.
(c) They pretended to be gods.
(d) They offered them poisoned food.

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

11. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?
(a) They were passed down by the Dreamtime spirit beings.
(b) They have been around for a very long time.
(c) They were the first laws in Australia before the white people came.
(d) They were established by the king of the Aboriginals.

12. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?
(a) That all their beliefs are false.
(b) A secret hiding place from the white men.
(c) How to use guns.
(d) That the white men are human beings and not spirits.

13. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?
(a) They are blocked by fences.
(b) All the animals have been frightened away.
(c) There are houses built on them.
(d) The white people have made hunting illegal.

14. How does Captain Fremantle try to communicate when he realizes they don't understand him?
(a) He gets a translator.
(b) He writes it down instead.
(c) He draws pictures in the sand.
(d) He tries to use sign language.

15. By what name are the Mardudjara people referred to?
(a) Majara.
(b) Jara.
(c) The Desert People.
(d) Mardu.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the Illustrated Melbourne Post say the Aboriginal people reacted to this act of goodwill?

3. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?

4. What is a wuungku?

5. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?

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