Requiem for a Beast - Part 1 Recap

Requiem for a Beast was written by...

• Matthew Ottley

• Matt Nottley

• Matt Ottley

• Sharkey

Requiem for a Beast was published in 2007. What historical event happened the following year?

• A vote to change the date of Australia Day

• Colonisation

• The Stolen Generation

• The Apology speech by Kevin Rudd

What does Dies Irae translate to?

• Day of Weeping

• Day of Wrath

• Dying in Wrath

• Part One

Which of the following is not a phase of the storm?

• The Reckoning

• Build Up

• Peaceful Silence

• The Cleansing

• Tension

Fill in the blank word:

"I'm supposed to be a fully initiated woman, but that knowledge, that ______, is gone." (Aboriginal Elder)

What is the very first line of the novel from the Aboriginal Elder?

What does the word 'fecund' mean?

• A bull's hind legs

• A terrible odour

• The smell of new growth

• The smell of rain

What does Ottley mean by the line: "The rain will soon be here"?

• Nothing - my English teacher reads into things too much

• The muster is cancelled

• The boy should buy an umbrella

• A cleansing will occur soon

During the Schoolhouse Dream, where does the boy know the child from?

• His father's story

• The elder's story

• His father and the elder's story

• He went to school with him

What is the beasts mantra in the Schoolroom Dream?