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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do a group of Aborigine men give the girls?
(a) Blankets.
(b) Food and water.
(c) Matches and salt.
(d) Shoes and coats.

2. How does the Superintendent feel about the baby?
(a) He is angry with Maude.
(b) He is embarrassed that she was born at his station.
(c) He thinks she is disgusting.
(d) He says nice things.

3. The girls are then handed over again, this time to Constable Pollett. How do they travel to Port Headland?
(a) By boat.
(b) By train.
(c) By car.
(d) They walk.

4. What do some mothers choose to do, out of fear that their children will be taken from them?
(a) Give birth in the bush rather than hospitals.
(b) Kill the babies' white fathers.
(c) Hide their babies in animal skins.
(d) Leave Jigalong forever to go back into the desert.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the crewman teach them?

2. How does the grandmother protect the new baby from any evil spirits nearby?

3. When do Aboriginal girls marry?

4. What will actually happen to them?

5. Why is Molly confident that the tracker will not be able to follow them?

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