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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. Where was Alan Howe's country house located?
(a) Keane Station.
(b) Kangaroo Gulch.
(c) King Valley.
(d) Koala Valley.
2. What is the name of the place that was a staging area for the Allies in World War II?
(a) Coral Springs.
(b) McAlister Springs.
(c) Tarpon Springs.
(d) Alice Springs.
3. Bryson and Sherwin took a ferry to __________________.
(a) the Sydney Opera House.
(b) the Australian Desert.
(c) Coral See Islands.
(d) the Great Barrier Reef.
4. Bryson took some time to walk around Alice Springs and saw Aborigines who were _________________.
(a) All of these.
(b) Bandaged.
(c) Bruised.
(d) In a bad way.
5. When was the initial peopling of the Australian continent?
(a) One million years ago.
(b) 60,000 - 70,000 years ago.
(c) 45,000 - 60,000 years ago.
(d) 15,000 - 30,000 years ago.
Short Answer Questions
1. Uluru is the Aboriginal name for what famous rock formation?
2. What is the name of the site where Bryson and Sherwin stopped to see giant boulders?
3. The UNESCO has designated Ayers Rock as a __________________.
4. Which of the following happened to Aborigine children in an attempt to integrate them into white society?
5. Echidnas and the platypus are the only members of the animal group called ______________.
Short Essay Questions
1. Who joined Bryson for his next trip to Australia and how does their adventure begin?
2. What is an echnida and how did Bryson encounter it?
3. What commitment did Bryson make to a foreigner while drunk at a pub in Daly Waters.
4. What is the tragedy of the Aborigine children that Bryson related in his book?
5. What did Bryson note as the reason for the high amount of unique flora and fauna in Australia?
6. What information did Bryson provide about how Australia came to be populated?
7. What did Bryson at first find so bizarre about the town of Alice Springs?
8. What famous tree did Bryson and Sherwin see in the town of Daly Waters?
9. What did Bryson learn from a journalist about the Myall Creek incident and how it is not even noted by most people?
10. What is the story of the plane called Kookaburra and its role in the search for aviation legend Charles Kingsford Smith?
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