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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 did Captain Cook first lay eyes on Australia?
(a) Cape Heard.
(b) Cape May.
(c) Cape Brittannia.
(d) Cape Tribulation.
2. What is a common story is geologic history?
(a) Natural selection.
(b) Formulated migration.
(c) Survival of the fittest.
(d) Accidental migration.
3. In Perth Bryson encountered an echidna which is related to _________________.
(a) the duck-billed platypus.
(b) coyotes.
(c) koalas.
(d) the Stegosaurus.
4. What desert habitat museum did Bryson visit?
(a) Great Barrier Habitat Museum.
(b) Royal Desert Park.
(c) Ayers Rock Museum.
(d) Alice Springs Desert Park.
5. What is remarkable about the stromatolites?
(a) They are an amazing turquoise color.
(b) They reproduce spontaneously.
(c) They swim backwards and upside down.
(d) They are the oldest known species of life on earth.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is Surfer's Paradise located?
2. Why did Bryson want to switch hotels?
3. About which of the following did Bryson warn Sherwin?
4. Who was the journalist who exposed the Myall Creek incident?
5. What is the Alice Springs School of Air?
Short Essay Questions
1. What unusual trees are important to Australia and where did Bryson walk among the tree tops?
2. Describe the miserable time that Bryson and Sherwin had in the city of Darwin.
3. How has the Aborigine population dwindled from the time Europeans arrived to colonize Australia?
4. What did Bryson at first find so bizarre about the town of Alice Springs?
5. What did Bryson report about the indiscriminate murder of Aborigines and the Myall Creek incident in particular?
6. What did Bryson note as the reason for the high amount of unique flora and fauna in Australia?
7. What information did Bryson provide about how Australia came to be populated?
8. What is an echnida and how did Bryson encounter it?
9. What did Bryson find so fascinating about the stromatolites at Sharks Bay?
10. Other than dangerous animals, what is an ever-constant threat to Australia's environment?
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