Australia Unit Test

Question 1

Terra Nullius

Answer 1

land belonging to no one

Question 2

Guerilla Warfare

Answer 2

nontraditional loosely organized fighting using surprise attacks

Question 3

Protectors of Aborigines

Answer 3

people meant to “educate”, care for, and “protect” Aboriginal peoples

Question 4

Protection Acts

Answer 4

a legislation meant to regulate and “protect” the lives of Indigenous people

Question 5

Immigration Restriction Act

Answer 5

aimed to limit non-British immigration to Australia. The Act gave immigration officers the power to make any non-European migrant take a 50-word dictation test

Question 6

The Aborigines Protection Act 1909

Answer 6

established camps to provide a place for the ‘doomed race to die off’ as Aborigines would ‘inevitably become extinct’

Question 7

Eugenics

Answer 7

the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable

Question 8

Aboriginal Australians

Answer 8

a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and is accepted as such by the community in which he [or she] lives

Question 9

Clan Groups

Answer 9

larger than a family but based on family links through a common ancestry

Question 10

The Dreaming

Answer 10

explained creation and the nature of the world, the place that every person had in that world and the importance of ritual and tradition

Question 11

Elders

Answer 11

caretakers and keepers of sacred knowledge that must be passed down through the generations

Question 12

Great Rainbow Serpent

Answer 12

laid eggs that became the huge round boulders of Karlwe Karlwe (the Devil’s Marbles). The serpent’s slithering and twisting created the rivers and waterholes

Question 13

The People of the Torres Strait Islands

Answer 13

the second group of Indigenous Australians who live on the islands of the Strait

Question 14

Mob

Answer 14

an everyday term identifying a group of Aboriginal people associated with a particular place or country

Question 15

Country

Answer 15

the traditional land to which a person belongs, or the land of their Dreaming

Question 16

Welcome to Country

Answer 16

an ancient ceremony that recognized the boundaries of clan land which were clearly identified and understood by all clan members and their neighbors

Question 17

Totems

Answer 17

a special species of plant, insect, bird or animal that is held sacred and expresses the connection between the people and nature.

Question 18

Half Caste

Answer 18

any person being the offspring of an Aboriginal mother and other than an Aboriginal father

Question 19

The 1936 Amendment Act

Answer 19

replaced all references to ‘Aboriginal’ and ‘Aborigines’ with the term ‘Native’. All references in the principal Act to ‘half-caste’ or ‘half-castes’ also were struck out

Question 20

Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act 1869

Answer 20

allowed the removal of Aboriginal people of mixed
descent from Aboriginal Stations or Reserves to force them to assimilate into White Society

Question 21

Quadroon

Answer 21

a person who was descended from the full blood original inhabitants of Australia or their full blood descendants but who is only one fourth of the original full blood

Question 22

Blanket Babies

Answer 22

infants who had blankets held over them to be hidden from their mothers
while they were being taken, supposedly to minimize distress, but perhaps also as a way of punishing them

Question 23

Stolen Generation

Answer 23

the countless number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were forcibly removed from their families under government policy and direction