The Spiritstone glows bright yellow… Something different is happening.

“Young traveller, the future of the land is unknown. You are now the future. What you have learned will decide the fate of Australia. Answer these questions, and show the Spiritstone that you are worthy…”

1. What year did Captain Cook arrive in Australia?

a. 1770

b. 1788

c. 1778

d. 1780

2. What did Tasmania used to be called?

a. Van Diemen’s Land

b. Hobart Town

c. Launceston

d. South Wales

3. What was the name of the port that the First Fleet came into?

a. Port Jackson

b. Port Sydney

c. Port Botany

d. Port Australia

4. What is the name of the Indigenous man who became friends with Governor Phillip

a. Bennelong

b. Eora

c. Wiradjuri

d. William Barak

5. What disease killed many Indigenous people in the 1790s?

a. smallpox

b. cancer

c. AIDS

d. malaria

6. Roughly how many Indigenous people lived in Australia before Europeans arrived?

a. 700,000

b. 100,000

c. 10,000,000

d. 3,000,000

7. Pemulwuy was a warrior from which people?

a. Bidjigal

b. Wiradjuri

c. Eora

d. Wurundjeri

8. How did Pemulwuy die?

a. disease

b. starvation

c. murder

d. accident

9. What was the main product used from whales?

a. meat

b. oil

c. blubber

d. bone

10. What was another benefit of whaling boats coming to Australia?

a. they would bring goods to Australia

b. they would bring whales to Australia

c. they would take convicts away from Australia

d. they brought weapons from Europe

11. What initially stopped settlers from living further inland from Sydney?

a. the Blue Mountains

b. drought

c. the number of rivers

d. salty water

12. What attracted settlers to Bathurst?

a. farmland

b. fresh water

c. kangaroos

d. Indigenous people

13. Who was the first person to sail around Australia?

a. Matthew Flinders

b. Captain James Cook

c. Abel Tasman

d. Arthur Phillip

14. How many indigenous languages were there in Australia before Europeans arrived?

a. tens

b. hundreds

c. thousands

d. tens of thousands

15. How many Indigenous people died during the “Black Line” in Tasmania?

a. 2

b. 20

c. 200

d. 2,000

16. When did Europeans start settling in Tasmania?

a. 1803

b. 1903

c. 2003

d. 1703

17. What was the biggest number of convicts that came to Australia per year?

a. 700

b. 7,000

c. 70,000

d. 70

18. How many convicts were on the First Fleet?

a. About 750

b. About 250

c. About 1,750

d. About 1,250

19. What happened to the 11 people put on trial for the Myall Creek Massacre?

a. They were all found guilty

b. They were all found innocent

c. 7 out of 11 of them were found guilty

d. 4 out of 11 of them were found guilty

20. From which Indigenous group were at least 28 people murdered in the Myall Creek Massacre?

a. Wirrayaraay

b. Wiradjuri

c. Wurundjeri

d. Eora

21. What modern state did the Eureka Stockade rebellion take place in?

a. Victoria

b. New South Wales

c. Tasmania

d. Queensland

22. Why were the miners protesting at Ballarat?

a. there was an increase in the miner’s fee

b. the mines were being closed down

c. the government taxed their gold

d. Chinese miners were being treated badly

23. Which nation were Indigenous leaders Simon Wonga and William Barak from?

a. Kulin

b. Eora

c. Wiradjuri

d. Pitjantjara

24. There were only about how many Indigenous people left in Victoria in 1863?

a. 2,000

b. 20,000

c. 50,000

d. 200

25. What year did convict transportation to Australia end?

a. 1868

b. 1768

c. 1968

d. 1668

26. Which state never had convicts?

a. Western Australia

b. New South Wales

c. South Australia

d. Tasmania

27. What was the first international touring sports team from Australia?

a. Indigenous cricketers

b. White cricketers

c. Indigenous soccer players

d. White soccer players

28. What made it hard for Indigenous people to travel in the late 1800s?

a. they had to get permission from white ‘protectors’

b. there was no transportation

c. there was nowhere interesting to go

d. a lack of horses

29. Who joined the “Australian Natives’ Association”?

a. Australian-born men

b. Australian-born people

c. Foreign men

d. Foreign people

30. What is one view the ANA had?

a. Australian colonies should join to make one country

b. Indigenous people should be in government

c. Australia should unify with Britain

d. women should earn as much money as men

“Well done, youngster. You have shown you are knowledgeable and skilled. With more people like you in Australia, perhaps the land can be healed. There is much work to do. The Spiritstone Saga is not yet complete, but your part in it has ended, for now. Congratulations, and go well.”

With that, the Spiritstone glows bright white. The light takes in everything. And then darkness. You wake up in your body in the modern day.

THE END