Rabbit Proof Fence
Please answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.
1. What are the girls doing at the beginning of the film? What does this tell
us about their culture and way of life?
2. Who are the fathers of Molly, Gracie and Daisy? Where have they gone?
3. Why does Molly’s mother tell the children to hide when she sees the
policemen?
4. What three things do Aboriginal people need to ask Mr. Neville’s permission to
do?
5. What are some of the rules at Moore River that the children must follow?
6. Who is Moodoo?
7. What was Neville’s plan to ‘help’ Aboriginal children?
8. What did Neville believe would happen to ‘mixed blood’ and ‘full blood’
Aboriginal people once his plan was implemented?
9. What did he (Neville) mean by “in spite of himself, the native must be helped”?
10. Why do you think Modoo works as a tracker? What does he think about
Molly, Gracie and Daisy? Is he really unable to catch them?
11. What does Molly say when she sees her mother?
12. What do Molly and Daisy do when they reach Jigalong? What happens to
them into the future?
13. What happened to Gracie?
14. Neville’s official title is ‘Chief Protector’ yet the children at Moore River call
him ‘Devil’. Who is Neville protecting? How would you describe him? Why?
15. Why do you think the Aborigines Act and related policies were accepted and
promoted in Western Australia?