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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?
(a) Because he tells them he is in charge.
(b) Because they recognize his picture from the newspaper.
(c) Because the other men salute him.
(d) Because he is wearing a uniform.

3. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?
(a) Arthur Carberry.
(b) Constable Riggs.
(c) Captain Freeman.
(d) Captain James Stirling.

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

5. What do Dora's clan see coming through the desert?
(a) A train.
(b) An army of white men.
(c) White men on a hunting trip.
(d) White men droving a large herd of cattle.

6. What is a wuungku?
(a) A ceremonial headdress.
(b) A dress.
(c) A type of weapon.
(d) A shelter.

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

8. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?
(a) One million square miles.
(b) One hundred thousand acres.
(c) Five acres.
(d) One hundred miles.

9. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?
(a) Taking one of the cattle.
(b) Killing all of the cattle.
(c) Killing the white men.
(d) Stealing all of the cattle.

10. What is the Canning Stock Route?
(a) A long line of wells stretching across the desert.
(b) A trail used for transporting prisoners.
(c) A trade route.
(d) A railway.

11. What do the Aboriginals have to do to survive?
(a) Become servants to white men and women.
(b) Run away into the desert.
(c) Become Christian.
(d) Declare war on England.

12. How do the Mardudjara people interact with the white station owners?
(a) They steal food from them.
(b) They train as stockmen and domestic help.
(c) They are captured and used as slaves by the white men.
(d) They trade animal skins for food and tobacco.

13. What does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?
(a) He wants to send money home to his sick mother.
(b) He wants to find an Aboriginal to be his slave.
(c) He wants to find good land and become rich.
(d) He wants to join the army.

14. What were the new settlers advised to do?
(a) Shoot all Aboriginals.
(b) Try to destroy Aboriginal culture.
(c) Take as much land as possible.
(d) Keep up their Englishness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Arthur Carberry bring to Australia with him?

2. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?

3. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?

4. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?

5. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?

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