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Gold in Australia Chapters 7 and 8

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did Jupiter Mosman find gold near Townsville?

a)

Christmas Eve 1871

b)

New Year's Day 1996

c)

New Year's Eve 1871

d)

christmas Day 1961

2.

Why did Broad Arrow become a ghost town?

a)

there were no jobs

b)

the gold ran out

c)

it was too violent

d)

there was a drought

3.

What is a labour shortage?

a)

when there aren't enough people to fill the jobs

b)

when there are too many people and not enough jobs

c)

when people earn too much money

d)

when nobody wants to work

4.

What language tool is used in the words ghost town?

a)

alliteration

b)

onomatopoea

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

5.

What is a monument?

a)

a natural landmark

b)

a statue or building created to remember a person or event

c)

a post office

d)

a myth or a legend

6.

What does it mean to thrive?

a)

to wither

b)

to give up

c)

to try but fail

d)

to do well

7.

Where did the government get its money to update Melbourne?

a)

money loaned from other states

b)

profits from the gold rush in Victoria

c)

from the farmers

d)

from the Queen

8.

Why was Melbourne nicknamed "Smellbourne"?

a)

it had a bad odour from the poor sewerage

b)

the people there did not bathe

c)

the governor there had no sense of smell

d)

It smelled of flowers in the spring

9.

Where is Melbourne?

a)

Victoria

b)

Queensland

c)

New South Wales

d)

Tasmania

10.

What two things are contrasted in this chapter?

a)

Melbourne in the gold rush and Melbourne now

b)

Melbourne and London

c)

the city of Melbourne before and after the gold rush

d)

Melbourne and Sydney

11.

the letters 'un' in the word unprepared are known as what?

a)

the prefix

b)

the suffix

c)

a contraction

d)

a metaphor

12.

Which word is the antonym of inferior?

a)

exterior

b)

inferno

c)

interior

d)

superior