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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. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?
(a) Because their gods will be angry.
(b) Because they would rather be tried under French law.
(c) Because the English people have no right to be there.
(d) Because their own laws and customs are not being respected.

2. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?
(a) White men fighting each other on the beach.
(b) White men carrying off Aboriginal women.
(c) White men and women, and their belongings, on the beach.
(d) Animals attacking their camp.

3. How is this carried out?
(a) Taking Aboriginals as servants.
(b) Building very grand houses.
(c) Picnics, fox-hunts and balls.
(d) Sending out patrols into the bush.

4. When did the first European settlers arrive in Western Australia?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1670.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1896.

5. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?
(a) They believe that the white men are right.
(b) The Queen tells them to.
(c) The white men have superior weapons.
(d) They don't believe in violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?

2. How do they justify this?

3. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?

4. What are the white men compared to?

5. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the girls feeling throughout their journey south to Moore River?

2. How do the white people at the depot react to the birth of the mixed race child?

3. Are the white men in chapter too greedy?

4. How do the Aboriginal people react to Captain Fremantle and the arrival of Stirling and his colonists?

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

6. Why did the first white men to encounter Aborigines in this area treat them so badly?

7. Describe how Molly and the girls escape Moore River.

8. Who is to blame for the incident between the white workers who dug the sacred land, and the Mardu?

9. Do the Aborigines do enough to fight back?

10. Do the Aborigines receive justice in chapter three?

(see the answer keys)

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