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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Violet Williams being punished?
(a) She hit a teacher.
(b) She swore at a teacher.
(c) She was caught kissing a boy.
(d) She stole some food.

2. Who does the captain hand the girls over to, to be looked after during the voyage?
(a) Mimi-Ali, an injured Aborigine woman.
(b) Gwen Campbell, the stewardess.
(c) George Johnson, a crewmember.
(d) Raymond Baxter, a sailor.

3. Where do they spend the night before traveling on to Moore River?
(a) A hotel in Perth.
(b) A settlement at Mogumber.
(c) The East Perth Girl's Home.
(d) Inside the car.

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

5. Why do new arrivals at the school create hope?
(a) The children hope for news from back home.
(b) The children hope that the new arrivals will get picked on instead of them.
(c) The children hope that the new arrivals might be able to escape.
(d) The children hope that the new arrivals will be their friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Molly and Gracie's family express their sorrow when the girls are taken?

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

3. Why does Molly sometimes wish she didn't have light skin?

4. On their walk around the grounds, what do they see a group of the children doing near the milking sheds?

5. When the girls meet a man on a bike while walking along the fence, what does the man do?

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