SOSE QuizMaking of a Nation (Quiz 3)

a. Find some food b. Farming c. Protect their land d. Colonise land

1. For what reason did the Wirrayaraay people move to the Myall Creek cattle station?

a. 1938 b. 1788 c. 1901 d. 1838

2. In which year did they move to the Myall Creek cattle station?

a. 21 b. 27 c. 11 d. 39

3. How many convicts and ex-convicts were involved?

a. 9 b. 28 c. 90 d. 10

4. Approximately how many Aboriginal people fled for safety?

a. Thomas Cook b. Arthur Philip c. Watkin Tench d. Neil Butlin

5. Who was the retired naval officer named the first Governor of New South Wales?

a. William Hobbs b. Watkin Tench c. Neil Butlin d. Arthur Philip

6. What was the name of the station manager who wrote about this massacre?

a. cancer b. smallpox c. malaria d. typhoid

7. It is believed the British brought a deadly disease that devastated most Aboriginal families. What was this disease?

a. 1911 b. 1789 c. 1983 d. 1945

8. In what year did Historian Neil Butlin suggest that the deadly disease might have been brought over to Australia to terminate the Aboriginal population?

a. South Australia b. West Australia c. Queensland d. New South Wales

9. In which state is the Myall Creek station?

a. Christianity b. Islam c. Sikh d. Hindu

10. What cultural system replaced their traditional methods?