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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 see when they investigate the noise?

2. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

3. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?

4. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?

5. Who is Yellagonga?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Major Lockyear have a duty to protect Kundilla and his people?

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

3. By moving to places like Jigalong, are the Aborigines losing their culture?

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

5. Why do you think the white people prevent the Aborigines from carrying out their traditional rituals and dances?

6. Did anyone have a happy ending in this story?

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

8. How do the girls' families react when the children are taken?

9. Why was the rabbit-proof fence built and does it fulfill the purpose it was built for?

10. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Mardu people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss identity. Why is identity important and who is it important to? How do the white people attempt to crush Aborigine identity?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the idea of human rights in this story. Who is not given proper rights, and what rights have been denied? Do the Aborigines have any more right to the land than the white people do?

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