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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Drought.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job did Conway's mother have before moving to the farm?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Nanny.
(d) Artist.

2. Why did Mr. Ker tell his daughter to sell Coorain after he died?
(a) So she wouldn't carry debt.
(b) Because it was his and no one else's.
(c) So she could make something of herself.
(d) Because she wasn't strong enough to run the farm.

3. In "The West," how long ago did Conway say white settlers came?
(a) 100 years ago.
(b) 130 years ago.
(c) 180 years ago.
(d) 40 years ago.

4. What did Angus tell Conway after her father's death?
(a) That she needs to work more at Coorain.
(b) That she should let her mother take a vacation.
(c) That she should leave Coorain.
(d) That she should go to church.

5. When did the terrible drought in "Drought" begin?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Conway and her mother travel to Sydney, in "Drought"?

2. Why did Mrs. Ker refuse to sell Coorain after her husband's death?

3. In "Coorain," what excited Conway's father about the land in the Western Division?

4. What is remarkable about most of the birds that live in the Western Plains of New South Wales?

5. In "The West," when did Conway say Australia had one of the highest per capita incomes in the world?

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