Australia and New Zealand reading

Question 1

penal

Answer 1

prison, comes from the word “penalty” or “punishment”

Question 2

transportation

Answer 2

British punishment of sentencing a criminal to be exiled for a period of time to another country

Question 3

genocide

Answer 3

an attempt to exterminate an entire ethnic or cultural group

Question 4

eugenics

Answer 4

the practice of modifying or eliminating a particular genetic trait using sterilization to prevent people with undesirable attributes from reproducing

Question 5

half-caste

Answer 5

mixed race

Question 6

Terra Nullius

Answer 6

Latin term that means “land belonging to no one” and is used in international law to indicate territory that is not owned by anyone and has never been claimed by anyone

Question 7

epithet

Answer 7

curse or racial slur

Question 8

Old Bailey

Answer 8

nickname of the largest criminal courthouse in England

Question 9

Libel

Answer 9

publishing false statements about someone

Question 10

carding

Answer 10

using a stiff, wired brush to straighten the fibers in wool before spinning it into thread

Question 11

cuddy table

Answer 11

small kitchen or pantry on board a ship

Question 12

longevity

Answer 12

length of lifespan

Question 13

Aotearoa

Answer 13

the name given to New Zealand by the Maori people who first lived there

Question 14

Moa

Answer 14

large flightless birds that were hunted to extinction by the Maori in the mid-1400s

Question 15

Waka

Answer 15

large canoes used in Polynesian exploration

Question 16

Kauri

Answer 16

second largest species of tree in the world after redwoods, native to New Zealand

Question 17

sleight of hand

Answer 17

trickery

Question 18

sedition

Answer 18

conduct or speech that encourages people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch

Question 19

apartheid

Answer 19

legalized, and strictly enforced, racial segregation in South Africa that was in existence until the early 1990s and was only eradicated after worldwide protests and embargoes