TEST - 63

In Kath Walker’s “A Song of Hope”, the opening imperative addresses which group most directly?

• Elders
• My people
• Strangers
• Leaders

Reading “A Song of Hope”, the poem’s hoped-for change is framed chiefly as a move from:

• Silence to song
• Chains to choice
• Darkness to light
• Past to prophecy

In “A Song of Hope”, the envisioned partnership is between First Nations and:

• Settlers
• Government
• Humanity
• Children

In “A Song of Hope”, the tone most precisely combines:

• Elegiac + accusatory
• Prophetic + exhortatory
• Satiric + ironic
• Nostalgic + pastoral

In “A Song of Hope”, the speaker’s authority is grounded primarily in:

• Church
• Custom
• Collective experience
• Scholarship

In “A Song of Hope”, the central rhetorical device steering the vision is:

• Apostrophe
• Litotes
• Chiasmus
• Anaphora

In Banjo Paterson’s “Waltzing Matilda”, the “swagman” most closely means:

• Drover
• Itinerant bushman
• Prospector
• Outlaw

In “Waltzing Matilda”, the “jumbuck” taken is a:

• Calf
• Sheep
• Goat
• Lamb

In “Waltzing Matilda”, the squatter’s social position is:

• Sharefarmer
• Landowner
• Trooper
• Overseer

In “Waltzing Matilda”, the tree by the billabong is the:

• Coolabah
• Wattle
• Gum
• Mulga