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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did early European explorers think Australia was?
(a) North America.
(b) An island in the Indies.
(c) Central America.
(d) South America.

2. What was Bryson's destination city?
(a) Melbourne.
(b) Adelaide.
(c) Perth.
(d) Sydney.

3. Bryson listed some of the early expeditions sent by ___________ to explore the land.
(a) Africans.
(b) Europeans.
(c) Asians.
(d) Americans.

4. Which of the following does Bryson spend some time discussing in the book?
(a) The planning and building of Canberra.
(b) All of these.
(c) The Australian gold rush.
(d) The founding of Sydney.

5. Who was the nineteenth-century man who unleashed animals to hunt?
(a) Thomas Austin.
(b) William Cook.
(c) Frederick Champ.
(d) James Caufield.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Trevor Ray Hart's profession?

2. Why had Bill Bryson been to Australia in the past?

3. The town of Cowra is famous for a mass breakout of ____________ prisoners during World War II.

4. How did Bryson characterize the yuppie town of Tanunda?

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

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