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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Jiigalong established?
(a) As a colony for new European settlers.
(b) As a settlement for Aborigines.
(c) As a school to teach Aboriginal children to speak English.
(d) As a base for maintenance workers on the rabbit-proof fence.

2. Why does Gracie leave the other two girls?
(a) She is sick of being bossed around by Molly and wants to continue on her own.
(b) To turn herself in to the authorities so that she can get some food.
(c) To get a train to the settlement where her mother lives.
(d) She is cold and wants to ask for blankets at a nearby farm.

3. How do the girls keep warm that night?
(a) They have to keep moving around instead of sleeping.
(b) They sleep in the same bed.
(c) They light a fire.
(d) They put on all the clothes they own at once.

4. How does the sight of the large river make Molly feel?
(a) Like a stranger in this part of the country.
(b) Trapped, like a prisoner.
(c) Happy to be out among nature again.
(d) Afraid, because she has never seen anything like it.

5. What makes Molly think the dormitory looks like a jail?
(a) There are guards and guard-dogs outside.
(b) It is a black, imposing building with a high wall around it.
(c) There are no windows.
(d) The doors are padlocked and there are bars at the windows.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Maude's family feel about their new boss, the maintenance inspector?

2. Why does Mr. Keeling advise the Department of Native Affairs that the half-caste children should be removed from Jigalong?

3. When the girls hear footsteps they quickly hide. What do the girls think they see?

4. What did Mr. Keeling, the Superintendent at Jigalong depot, write in a letter that was ignored?

5. Why can't the girls eat the rabbit that Gracie catches?

(see the answer keys)

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