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Storm Boy Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Someone who looks for valuable items at the beach

a)

midden

b)

scabber

c)

beachcomber

d)

hermit

2.

This is a...

a)

blunderbuss

b)

tussock

c)

sedge

d)

midden

3.

Where is the Coorong? Select all that apply.

a)

New South Wales

b)

The setting

c)

Where Storm Boy goes to school

d)

South Australia

4.

To be lonely and sad.

a)

roused

b)

writhe

c)

forlorn

d)

seldom

5.

What are Fingerbone and Hideaway talking about?
'An old ______ ,' said Hideaway, 'left by the Aborigines.'
...
'A camping place where they used to crack their shellfish.'

a)

inlet

b)

midden

c)

sedge

d)

hermit

6.

What is this?

a)

a humpy

b)

an inlet

c)

a tussock

d)

a blunderbuss

7.

Hideaway has been described as a ________, because he has an isolated life.

a)

husband

b)

houso

c)

hermit

d)

hobo

8.

What is this?

a)

a sedge

b)

an inlet

c)

a midden

d)

a humpy

9.

What is the opposite of 'put to sleep'?

a)

writhed

b)

alerted

c)

fooled

d)

roused

10.

How would you describe this landscape?

a)

scrubby

b)

tussocky

c)

swampy

d)

arid

11.

To move like a sloth.

a)

sedately

b)

carelessly

c)

relentlessly

d)

calously

12.

What is this?

a)

a humpy

b)

scrub

c)

a midden

d)

a sedge

13.

To do something not often, or rarely.

a)

relentlessly

b)

sedately

c)

frequently

d)

seldom

14.

What is an underbelly? (select all that apply)

a)

the abdomen of an animal

b)

gangs and mafias etc.

c)

the back of an animal

d)

the navel

15.

Which is a synonym for writhe? (same/similar meaning)

a)

wriggle

b)

potter

c)

settle

d)

meddle