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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Molly and Gracie's family express their sorrow when the girls are taken?
(a) Cut off all their hair.
(b) Refuse to eat.
(c) Take some of the white children in retaliation.
(d) Cut themselves with sharp objects.

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

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

4. How does the sight of the large river make Molly feel?
(a) Happy to be out among nature again.
(b) Trapped, like a prisoner.
(c) Like a stranger in this part of the country.
(d) Afraid, because she has never seen anything like it.

5. What is the usual breakfast?
(a) Cold stew.
(b) A glass of water flavored with sugar.
(c) Weevily porridge.
(d) Toast and jam.

6. 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.

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

8. Who is the father of Maude's child?
(a) Her 'bilgur' (her betrothed).
(b) Protector of Aborigines, Constable Riggs.
(c) The Superintendent, Mr. Keeling.
(d) An inspector of the fence, Thomas Craig.

9. What becomes a regular weekend event?
(a) Hunting and gathering traditional foods.
(b) Pilgrimages into the Law.
(c) Telling stories of the ancestors around the communal fire.
(d) A ritual dance.

10. What do a group of Aborigine men give the girls?
(a) Shoes and coats.
(b) Food and water.
(c) Blankets.
(d) Matches and salt.

11. Who names the baby Molly?
(a) Maude's father.
(b) The baby's grandmother.
(c) Maude.
(d) The father.

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

13. When do Aboriginal girls marry?
(a) Between five and ten years old.
(b) Aboriginal people do not have a concept of marriage.
(c) At twenty-five.
(d) As adolescents.

14. When the girls reach the heathlands, what do they see?
(a) Beautiful and unusual wildflowers.
(b) A large lake blocking their way.
(c) A large lake blocking their way.
(d) Strange animals.

15. 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 obviously think of themselves as black.
(c) They would become violent if forced away from their families again.
(d) They would only keep escaping again, because they know how to survive in the bush.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the girls told they are not allowed to do at the school?

2. When are the girls allowed sheets on their beds?

3. During the voyage, several members of the crew try to keep the girls entertained. What does one crewman tell them about?

4. Where do they spend the night before traveling on to Moore River?

5. How does the Superintendent feel about the baby?

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