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EUB252 - Week 4 Quiz

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In 1968 Jim Bowler discovered some bones around the now dry Lake Mungo area, these were named:

a)

Mungo Lady

b)

Paakantji

c)

Ngyimpaa

d)

Mungo Man

2.

One massacre of indigenous people stands out in history as the perpetrators were prosecuted and subsequently hung. This massacre is the:

a)

Tasmanian black wars

b)

Christmas Creek Massacre

c)

Wiradjuri War

d)

Myall Creek Massacre

3.

This political cartoon is specifically criticising:

a)

The frontier wars

b)

The history wars

c)

The black wars

d)

Henry Reynolds

4.

Trove is a good place to find:

a)

Digitised primary source newspaper articles

b)

Secondary source text book excerpts

c)

Queensland State Library Archives

d)

Recent newspaper articles (21st Century)

5.

The Great Australian Silence as explained by WEH Stanner is referring to:

a)

the process of Australia coming to terms with its past and the process of reconciliation

b)

Windschuttle's attempt to undermine the work of academics such as Henry Reynolds and Lyndall Ryan

c)

the counter-revolution concerning the interpretation of the dispossession of aboriginal Australians

d)

the erasing of the defeat and dispossession of aboriginal Australians from the national memory and conventional history up until the 1980s.

6.

The name of the media outlet that supported the counter-revolution against the writing of Reynolds:

a)

Guardian

b)

The Fabrication of Aboriginal History

c)

Quadrant

d)

The Conversation

7.

Windschuttle maintains that the Tasmanian Indigenous society was destroyed by:

a)

European colonists

b)

combination of disease and the deep dysfuncationality of a social system that had survived by luck

c)

The native mounted police

d)

Each other

8.

The 1992 Mabo vs State of Queensland case about land rights was successful.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

The 1967 Referendum was about:

a)

Australia becoming a republic

b)

Conscription

c)

Counting aboriginal Australians in the census

d)

Marriage equality

10.

Who was the popular Australian politician who would not say sorry:

a)

John Howard

b)

Kevin Rudd

c)

Paul Keating

d)

Malcolm Turnbull

11.

Blackbirding is referring to

a)

when the South Sea islanders were recruited through trickery and kidnapping

b)

indentured slavery

c)

when South Sea Islanders signed 3 year contracts under the 1868 Polynesian Labourers Act

d)

the 1906 mass deportation

12.

It might seem quite shocking, but the Australian South Sea Islanders were not recognised as a distinct ethnic and cultural group within Australia until:

a)

1901

b)

1996

c)

2000

d)

2020

13.

The collection of policies that make up the White Australia policy, was mainly to keep the following group of people from migrating to Australia:

a)

English

b)

Chinese

c)

South Sea Islanders

d)

Aboriginal Australians

14.

In 1901 Australians felt very close ties with

a)

America

b)

Canada

c)

Britain

d)

China

15.

WWI was not the first time Australians had been involved in international conflict. Another was

a)

The Boer War

b)

The Punic Wars

c)

The 100 Years War

d)

The Peloponnesian War

16.

The Gallipoli landing happened on:

a)

15 April 1925

b)

25 April 1915

c)

25 April 2015

d)

11 November 2011

17.

Who was the Australian Prime Minister in 1916 who was pro-conscription and wrote "There rests upon every man an obligation to do his duty in the spirit that befits free men"?

a)

John Curtin

b)

Paul Keating

c)

Albo

d)

Billy Hughes

18.

The 1916 referendum was asking people to vote yes or no for

a)

Marriage Equality

b)

Conscription

c)

Republic

d)

Federal Election

19.

What common food to QLDs enjoy throwing at politicians as a sign of protest?

a)

Cabbage

b)

Bread

c)

Egg

d)

Apple