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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. When did the first European settlers arrive in Western Australia?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1670.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1896.
2. How do they justify this?
(a) The spirits of the ancestors told them to.
(b) The white people are evil.
(c) The food should be shared.
(d) They will die if they do not.
3. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?
(a) One million square miles.
(b) Five acres.
(c) One hundred thousand acres.
(d) One hundred miles.
4. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?
(a) To become men.
(b) To gather firewood.
(c) To fight white men.
(d) To find a new clan to join.
5. 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.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Yellagonga?
2. What does Dora show the children how to make?
3. How do the white workers react to the violence?
4. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?
5. How long had the red desert been the home of the Mardudjara people before they left?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Maude's family react to her pregnancy?
2. Who is to blame for the incident between the white workers who dug the sacred land, and the Mardu?
3. Why did the first white men to encounter Aborigines in this area treat them so badly?
4. Do the Aborigines receive justice in chapter three?
5. The girls meet other mixed race girls at the girls' home in Perth. How have these girls been misled?
6. Is Kundilla too trusting?
7. Why have the colonists come to Australia?
8. Do Kundilla and his people live a good life?
9. Do Daisy and Gracie trust Molly as a leader?
10. The colonists are told to 'keep up their Englishness.' What does this involve? Why might they be asked to do this?
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