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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the girls reach the heathlands, what do they see?
(a) Beautiful and unusual wildflowers.
(b) Strange animals.
(c) A large lake blocking their way.
(d) A large lake blocking their way.

2. What will actually happen to them?
(a) They will be sent further away from their families to work on dairy farms.
(b) They will be sent to work as servants in England.
(c) They will be imprisoned.
(d) They will be kept in a settlement for half-caste girls for the rest of their lives.

3. When are the girls allowed sheets on their beds?
(a) Only if they have been well behaved.
(b) Only on very cold nights.
(c) The beds always have sheets.
(d) Only when special visitors come.

4. What do the girls want to ask him, but do not dare?
(a) Whether there are black people in other places in the world.
(b) Where they are being taken and what will happen to them.
(c) Whether the slaves who built the pyramids were like them, or like the white men.
(d) Why the white people came to Australia in the first place.

5. Who does Constable Riggs hand the girls over to here?
(a) The headmistress of Moore River School.
(b) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.
(c) Constable Melrose.
(d) Gracie's family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens at the big meeting held during the holidays at the end of the year?

2. How does the sight of the large river make Molly feel?

3. What do the girls think of the city?

4. What does Molly decide that night?

5. The girls meet two other half-caste girls, called Eva and Nora. What do these two girls think will happen to them soon?

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