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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. At one time how may Allied troops were in holding in Alice Springs?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 27,000.

2. How long have stromatolites been on earth?
(a) 1.5 billion years.
(b) 2 billion years.
(c) 4 million years.
(d) 3.5 billion years.

3. Where did Bryson walk through the tops of trees?
(a) Valley of the Giants.
(b) Green Valley.
(c) Kookaburra Valley.
(d) Royal Brittannia Valley.

4. What is remarkable about the stromatolites?
(a) They are an amazing turquoise color.
(b) They are the oldest known species of life on earth.
(c) They swim backwards and upside down.
(d) They reproduce spontaneously.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city did Bryson and Sherwin have to wait out a monsoon?

2. How many Aborigines were living on the continent by the time the Europeans arrived to colonize Australia?

3. With what did Bryson dry off after snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef?

4. For what is Red Bluff Beach famous?

5. What is a common story is geologic history?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Bryson wistfully end this book?

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

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

5. Bryson visited Glenrowan and learned about which famous outlaw?

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

7. What is an echnida and how did Bryson encounter it?

8. What did Bryson learn from a journalist about the Myall Creek incident and how it is not even noted by most people?

9. To what does Perth owe much of its prosperity and who was one of its most prominent citizens and businessmen?

10. For what is Alice Springs best known?

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