Potato Country pt 1

One of these pictures is of Kirsty Marillier, the author of 'Potato Country'. Which one?

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This introduces the context of...........

• Rural Australian some years ago.

• Metropolitan Australia.

• Australia in the future.

• South Africa

We can infer that Marillier's father struggles to find work because of ....................

• Shortage of teaching jobs

• His lack of qualifications.

• His lack of ambition.

• Racial prejudice.

The quote 'hunted ferociously .... for full-time work' conveys to the reader that Marillier's father is .....

• lazy and selfish.

• resolutely determined to find work

• violent in nature.

• not a good father.

Marillier admires her parents'................ (Choose the best three)

• resilience

• patience and optimism

• knowledge of when to give up.

• willingness to make sacrifices for their children.

• desire to return to South Africa.

Marillier would see her parents as good role models.

• True

• False

Which of these four words best suggest how good the Marilliers thought life would be in Australia?

• Idyllic

• Need

• Mecca

• Paradise

• Utopia

One of the reasons the Marillier's left South Africa was ............

• Communism.

• Religion

• Apartheid

• Pumpkin soup.

Apartheid was ...........

• A form of cricket.

• Democracy

• a system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.

• A religion

The country town they moved to was called ...

• Dimboola

• Perth

• Pemberton

• Capetown