Gold: Chapter 6 Life on the Australian Goldfields

Which of the following became Austalia's largest city during the gold rush?

• Melbourne

• Sydney

• Ballarat

• Kalgoorie

According to the information on page 14, the police often fought with miners who

• had not paid their mining fees

• tried to keep the gold that they found without reporting it

• stole gold from other miners

• built unsafe and unstable mine shafts

Evidence in this chapter suggests that

• prospectors in Australian goldfields were often attacked and robbed by police

• Victorian prospectors were banned from working in New South Wales

• the Australian gold rush brought wealth and prosperity to nearby towns and cities

• life on the Australian gold fields never imprived from the early days of prospecting

The dash placed between '1851' and '1871' on page 14, replaces the word

• and

• to

• from

• between

Which of the following words from the text is not a compound word?

• goldfield

• bandicoot

• bushranger

• underground

Identify the adverb in the following sentence. Dirty living conditions and poor nutrition meant diseases spread easily

• dirty

• poor

• living

• easily