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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 is the Mardudjara?
(a) A settlement for Aboriginal people.
(b) Several tribes of Aboriginal people who live in the desert regions.
(c) An area of Australia where beautiful flowers grow.
(d) An Aboriginal god.

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

3. What do the group have to do in order to adapt to life with white people?
(a) Become Christian.
(b) Learn English.
(c) Wash.
(d) Put clothes on.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a wuungku?

2. What do the Aboriginals have to do to survive?

3. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?

4. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. The girls meet other mixed race girls at the girls' home in Perth. How have these girls been misled?

2. What does Captain Fremantle do wrong when he tries to communicate?

3. By moving to places like Jigalong, are the Aborigines losing their culture?

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

5. How do the girls' families react when the children are taken?

6. Who behaves the worst in this book?

7. Why does Captain Fremantle attempt to communicate with the Aborigines, and is he a good man for trying to do this?

8. Do the Aborigines do enough to fight back?

9. How do Aborigine people hunt and kill their food?

10. Why is Kundilla respected?

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