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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?

2. How is this carried out?

3. What were the white construction workers doing?

4. By what name are the Mardudjara people referred to?

5. What does Captain Fremantle want?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why has the arrival of white colonists been bad for the Aboriginal people?

2. How do Maude's family react to her pregnancy?

3. Why do the white people give up the search for Molly and Daisy?

4. Who behaves the worst in this book?

5. What could the wildflowers, plants and animals that the girls see symbolize?

6. Is it fair that Bidgup and Meedo are sent to a penal colony?

7. How do Aborigine people hunt and kill their food?

8. In what ways were the girls' lives similar?

9. What does Constable Melrose do with the girls at Marble Bar?

10. Why are the Aborigines afraid of white men?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss freedom in this story. How is it represented and what does the author say about it? How important is freedom? Who is free and who is not?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think the author waited until chapter five before introducing the main girls? Why give us so much history in the previous chapters? Do you think this is effective?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the character of Molly. What is her relationship like with the other girls? Is she a good leader?

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