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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Bryson go after leaving Sydney again?
(a) Keeneville.
(b) Thomasville.
(c) Brisbane.
(d) Victoria Station.

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

3. What country is this book about?
(a) England.
(b) Japan.
(c) Australia.
(d) Portugal.

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

5. What is the worst offender of species destroying or endangering much of Australia's flora and fauna?
(a) Wolves.
(b) Cats.
(c) Hyenas.
(d) Dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Bryson drank too much in a pub?

2. Australia is the habit of ____________________ than anywhere else in the world.

3. What was the name of the seventeen-foot crocodile Bryson and Sherwin saw in a museum in Darwin?

4. In what year did Sydney host the Olympics?

5. Who is Alan Howe's wife?

(see the answer key)

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