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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How do the settlers allocate land?
(a) They are allowed to choose land wherever they want.
(b) The Aboriginals decide.
(c) Each person is given a grant of land by the English government.
(d) The land is bought off the Aboriginals.

4. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?
(a) Western Australia.
(b) Perth.
(c) Northern Australia.
(d) New England.

5. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?
(a) That they will anger the spirits.
(b) That they will take their land.
(c) That they will take away the women.
(d) That they will try to kill all the Aboriginals in the camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Aboriginals cut their meat?

2. What strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?

3. How long had the red desert been the home of the Mardudjara people before they left?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the grounds of Moore River.

2. Do Daisy and Gracie trust Molly as a leader?

3. Do the Aborigines receive justice in chapter three?

4. Did Molly, Daisy and Gracie gain anything by escaping from Moore River?

5. Is there anything positive about Moore River?

6. How does Moore River attempt to make the children culturally 'white' and forget their Aboriginal identity?

7. Why are the Aborigines afraid of white men?

8. Why has the arrival of white colonists been bad for the Aboriginal people?

9. Should the Aborigines take more action against the white people in chapter two?

10. Who behaves the worst in this book?

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