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WorksheetsAustralian Civil Right Movements - Unit Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 19mins
"The discrimination of a group based on their shared physical characteristics and/or culture" describes which terms?
Assimilation
Misconceptions
Racism
Reconciliation
TRUE OR FALSE
Due to the British expansion, the dominant culture is Australia is Anglo-Celtic
True
False
Name the AFL player that the documentary 'The Australian Dream' focuses on
(a)
TRUE OR FALSE
Representations can only be visual materials
True
False
Something that supports public awareness should lead to __________ views, whereas something that __________ public awareness should lead to negative views.
(a)
TRUE OR FLASE
Historical government policies support public awareness
True
False
Which of the following is not a misconception about Aboriginal Australians and their cultures?
The past perception that land belonged to no one prior to European arrival
The perception that culture is shared
The perception that Aboriginal Australians live in rural areas
The perception that Aboriginal Australians live in urban areas
According to the 2016 Australian Census (ABS) 81% lived in cities and nonremote areas, and in 2021 this
number increased to 84.7%.
Which misconception does this fact proves is false?
1 - The past perception that land belonged to no one prior to European arrival
2 - The perception that Aboriginal Australians share one culture
3 - The perception that Aboriginal Australians live in arid/rural areas
"When a minority group is forced to adopt the language and customs of the dominant culture" describes which term?
Assimilation
Missions
Segregation
Reconciliation
TRUE OR FALSE
The removal of children from their families during historical government policies
(including under assimilation policies) is now known as the Stolen Generations
True
False
Assimilation policies continued from the late 1940s to the late (a) s
TRUE OR FALSE
Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were negatively affected by assimilation polices
True
False
Which event was the first national gathering of Aboriginal Australians protesting against their mistreatment?
The Australian Freedom Rides
The Day of Mourning
The Tent Embassy
The Wave Hill Walk Off
On (a) 1938 (the 150th anniversary), a group of Aboriginal Australians decided to respond to the day’s celebrations by holding an Aboriginal Day of Mourning to protest the violence, dispossession and discrimination that Aboriginal people had experienced since 1788
Who led the Australian Freedom Rides?
Rosa Parks
Charles Perkins
Vincent Lingiari
Kevin Rudd
Who led the Wave Hill Walk Off?
Rosa Parks
Charles Perkins
Vincent Lingiari
Kevin Rudd
Which of the following is not an example of the discrimination that the Freedom Riders witnessed?
In Walgett Aboriginal Australians were banned from entering the town’s Returned and Services League (RSL) Club any time other than ANZAC Day
In Moree Aboriginal Australians were banned from swimming in the council swimming pool.
In Yirrkala (in the Northern Territory) the Yolngu people had to start a petition for the right to their land
In Bowraville the cinema was partitioned so that Aboriginal Australians were separated from other
patrons
TRUE OR FALSE
Gough Whitlam ‘handing back’ the Gurindji people’s traditional lands would support public awareness
True
False
Identify this event
The Australian Freedom Rides
The Tent Embassy
The Wave Hill Walk Off
The Day of Mourning
TRUE OR FALSE
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is no longer operational
True
False
Which past Prime Minister delivered the Red Fern Speech?
Paul Keating
John Howard
Kevin Rudd
Scott Morrison
TURE OR FALSE
A formal apology to the Stolen Generations was NOT one of the recommendations made in, as a result of the Bringing them Home Report (1997)
True
False
"A process whereby people in conflict agree to make amends or come to an agreement" describes which term?
Assimilation
Embassy
Misconceptions
Reconciliation
There are two types of reconciliation - practical and (a) .
The 'Closing the Gap' initiative is an example of __________ reconciliation, whereas Kevin Rudd's 'Apology Speech' is an example of __________ reconciliation.
(a)
When did the 'Era of Reconciliation' being?
1800s
1940s
1960s
1990s
TRUE OR FALSE
Although the government has pledged to fund this initiative, recent data shows that little progress has been made in ‘closing the gap’ between Aboriginal and non- Aboriginal disadvantage
True
False
TRUE OR FALSE
Kevin Rudd's Apology Speech was to the Stolen Generation whose lives had been affected by historical
government policies, centered on the forced assimilation and removal of children
True
False
A group of people representing their country in a foreign land, or a building where these people are located, is known as an (a) .
"The process of separating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from
European settlers. Historical government policies were based on this idea" describes which term?
Assimilation
Misconceptions
Reconciliation
Segregation
