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

2. What is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?
(a) Money is given to the Aboriginals.
(b) All the land is given back to the Aboriginals.
(c) Free blankets are given to the Aboriginals.
(d) Aboriginal servants are given a holiday.

3. By what name are the Mardudjara people referred to?
(a) The Desert People.
(b) Majara.
(c) Mardu.
(d) Jara.

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

5. What is the Canning Stock Route?
(a) A trail used for transporting prisoners.
(b) A trade route.
(c) A long line of wells stretching across the desert.
(d) A railway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?

2. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?

3. What is the Mardudjara?

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

5. What is a wuungku?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is there anything positive about Moore River?

2. How are the girls treated on the boat?

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

4. Do the Aborigines do enough to fight back?

5. Why was the rabbit-proof fence built and does it fulfill the purpose it was built for?

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

7. Why have the colonists come to Australia?

8. What is the girls' reaction to Perth?

9. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Mardu people?

10. How do Maude's family react to her pregnancy?

(see the answer keys)

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