Gold in Australia Chapters 7 and 8

When did Jupiter Mosman find gold near Townsville?

• Christmas Eve 1871

• New Year's Day 1996

• New Year's Eve 1871

• christmas Day 1961

Why did Broad Arrow become a ghost town?

• there were no jobs

• the gold ran out

• it was too violent

• there was a drought

What is a labour shortage?

• when there aren't enough people to fill the jobs

• when there are too many people and not enough jobs

• when people earn too much money

• when nobody wants to work

What language tool is used in the words ghost town?

• alliteration

• onomatopoea

• simile

• metaphor

What is a monument?

• a natural landmark

• a statue or building created to remember a person or event

• a post office

• a myth or a legend

What does it mean to thrive?

• to wither

• to give up

• to try but fail

• to do well

Where did the government get its money to update Melbourne?

• money loaned from other states

• profits from the gold rush in Victoria

• from the farmers

• from the Queen

Why was Melbourne nicknamed "Smellbourne"?

• it had a bad odour from the poor sewerage

• the people there did not bathe

• the governor there had no sense of smell

• It smelled of flowers in the spring

Where is Melbourne?

• Victoria

• Queensland

• New South Wales

• Tasmania

What two things are contrasted in this chapter?

• Melbourne in the gold rush and Melbourne now

• Melbourne and London

• the city of Melbourne before and after the gold rush

• Melbourne and Sydney