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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a common story is geologic history?
(a) Natural selection.
(b) Formulated migration.
(c) Accidental migration.
(d) Survival of the fittest.

2. Bryson pointed out that Australia's ______________ promote(s) specialization in species.
(a) Vast unpopulated inner country.
(b) Rainfall amounts.
(c) Harsh environments.
(d) Urban planning.

3. For what is Myall Creek famous?
(a) The production of boomerangs.
(b) An incident involving the slaughter of Aborigines.
(c) The prisoner colonies.
(d) The production of didgeridoos.

4. What town did Bryson and Sherwin visit on the North Coast?
(a) Melbourne.
(b) Darwin.
(c) Edson.
(d) Brisbane.

5. How many Aborigines were living on the continent by the time the Europeans arrived to colonize Australia?
(a) 5 million.
(b) 300,000 - 1 million.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 25,000 - 50,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. About which of the following did Bryson warn Sherwin?

2. What animal does an echidna resemble?

3. Where did Bryson walk through the tops of trees?

4. Why couldn't Bryson and Sherwin swim in the cove next to their hotel?

5. Which of the following did Bryson see at Surfer's Paradise?

Short Essay Questions

1. What commitment did Bryson make to a foreigner while drunk at a pub in Daly Waters.

2. How does the reader know that Bryson had a good time with his friends Alan Howe and Carmel Egan?

3. What did Bryson report about the indiscriminate murder of Aborigines and the Myall Creek incident in particular?

4. Who joined Bryson for his next trip to Australia and how does their adventure begin?

5. What did Bryson note as the reason for the high amount of unique flora and fauna in Australia?

6. How has the Aborigine population dwindled from the time Europeans arrived to colonize Australia?

7. How did Bryson and Sherwin spend their time while waiting out the monsoon in Cairns?

8. Describe the Devils Marbles.

9. What is the tragedy of the Aborigine children that Bryson related in his book?

10. How can the reader tell that Uluru was Bryson's favorite site during his Australia trip?

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