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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?
(a) That the spirits of the ancestors will be angry.
(b) That the white people will declare war on them.
(c) That they will be driven from their lands.
(d) That they will have to work for the white people.

2. What are the white men compared to?
(a) Bush fires out of control.
(b) Stampeding herds.
(c) A terrible storm.
(d) Flesh eating spirits.

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

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

5. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?
(a) Swords.
(b) Guns.
(c) Sticks.
(d) Spears.

6. What does Captain Fremantle want?
(a) He wants them to put some clothes on.
(b) He wants them to bring him and his men some food.
(c) He wants their permission to name the area.
(d) He wants to teach them about white men and their society.

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

8. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?
(a) The white people steal their food and possessions.
(b) Hunger and disease.
(c) Violence, sexual exploitation, and loss of lands.
(d) They are forced to work as slaves.

9. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?
(a) Maude.
(b) Captain Fremantle.
(c) Molly.
(d) Kundilla.

10. How is this carried out?
(a) Sending out patrols into the bush.
(b) Taking Aboriginals as servants.
(c) Building very grand houses.
(d) Picnics, fox-hunts and balls.

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

12. What strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?
(a) A bad storm.
(b) One of the clan goes missing.
(c) A stranger arrives.
(d) A loud boom.

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

14. Why did the Captain crash the ship?
(a) He was shocked by the sight of Captain Fremantle's boat already in the estuary.
(b) He saw the Aboriginals and thought they would make good servants.
(c) He was drunk.
(d) He wasn't watching where he was going.

15. 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 capture two Aboriginal men but then let them go unharmed.
(d) The soldiers offer them gifts in friendship.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name are the Mardudjara people referred to?

2. How do the Mardudjara people feel about their work?

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

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

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

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