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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What museum did Carmel take Bryson to visit?
(a) Immigration Museum.
(b) Maritime Museum.
(c) Aviation Museum.
(d) Natural History Museum.

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

3. Australian people seemed to Bryson to be obsessed with comparing their _____________ with others.
(a) Government.
(b) Country.
(c) Sports.
(d) Kids.

4. What is the first thing Bryson did when arriving in a new city?
(a) Rented a car.
(b) Got a hotel room.
(c) Picked up his luggage.
(d) Called his wife.

5. What was the Myall Creek incident?
(a) White settlers killed 25 Aborigines for sport.
(b) White settlers killed British soldiers by mistake.
(c) Aborigines killed the white settlers' cattle.
(d) British sailors were massacred by Aborigines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bryson's starting location?

2. Bryson stated that if he lived in Australia he would constantly be looking for _______________.

3. The southeastern edge of Australia where the four largest cites are located is called __________________.

4. Bryson wrote that the difference between Canberra and Adelaide is that Canberra is a city built in a park, whereas Adelaide is __________________________.

5. What is a common story is geologic history?

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