2. When the girls meet a man on a bike while walking along the fence, what does the man do?
(a) Captures them and calls the police.
(b) Gives them food, then reports that he saw them.
(c) Ignores their pleas for food and rides away.
(d) Chases them away from the fence.

3. What is Molly's plan?
(a) To get the train back to Jigalong.
(b) To hitch-hike and ask for help from farms and villages.
(c) To find the rabbit-proof fence and follow it to Jigalong.
(d) To stow away on a ship heading north, then walk to Jigalong.

4. On their walk around the grounds, what do they see a group of the children doing near the milking sheds?
(a) Stealing extra food.
(b) Huddling together for warmth.
(c) Trying to escape.
(d) Playing rounders.

5. What did Mr. Keeling, the Superintendent at Jigalong depot, write in a letter that was ignored?
(a) That the half-caste children might be dangerous if placed into white society.
(b) That the half-caste children would be very unhappy if taken away from their families.
(c) That the Aborigines would become violent if their children were taken away.
(d) That the half-caste children tend more towards black culture than white.

6. What do the girls want to ask him, but do not dare?
(a) Whether there are black people in other places in the world.
(b) Whether the slaves who built the pyramids were like them, or like the white men.
(c) Why the white people came to Australia in the first place.
(d) Where they are being taken and what will happen to them.

7. When are the girls allowed sheets on their beds?
(a) Only on very cold nights.
(b) Only when special visitors come.
(c) The beds always have sheets.
(d) Only if they have been well behaved.

8. How old is Daisy?
(a) Six.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Nine.

9. What happens at the big meeting held during the holidays at the end of the year?
(a) War is declared on the white people.
(b) Traditional ceremonies and rituals are performed.
(c) Marriages take place only at this time of year.
(d) They celebrate Christmas.

10. What is the punishment for running away?
(a) Their heads are shaved and they are whipped.
(b) They are not allowed meat for a month.
(c) They are locked away from the other children permanently.
(d) They are branded with a mark that identifies them as runaways.

11. Who does Constable Riggs hand the girls over to here?
(a) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.
(b) Gracie's family.
(c) Constable Melrose.
(d) The headmistress of Moore River School.

12. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Aborigines?
(a) They will be able to live in houses rather than stick shelters.
(b) It is a place where they can learn English.
(c) Food, and safety from the white people.
(d) No guns are allowed in the settlement.

13. Who does the captain hand the girls over to, to be looked after during the voyage?
(a) Gwen Campbell, the stewardess.
(b) Mimi-Ali, an injured Aborigine woman.
(c) Raymond Baxter, a sailor.
(d) George Johnson, a crewmember.

14. What does the author think the girls really saw?
(a) The matron of the Moore River school.
(b) An Aborigine man running to get away from the storm.
(c) The black tracker, searching for them.
(d) A horse.

15. The girls are then handed over again, this time to Constable Pollett. How do they travel to Port Headland?
(a) By boat.
(b) By car.
(c) By train.
(d) They walk.