This quiz has been created for the release of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature - an abridged version was used for our competition to win a special limited collector's edition of the Anthology. Some of the best, most significant writing produced in Australia over more than two centuries is gathered in this landmark anthology. Covering all genres - from fiction, poetry and drama to diaries, letters, essays and speeches - the anthology maps the development of one of the great literatures in English in all its energy and variety. This quiz consists of 30 questions on a range of subjects within Australian literature.
Moore River Native Settlement
Ebenezer Mission
Doomadgee Aboriginal Mission
Wellington Valley Mission
Simian Boogie
The Monkey's Mask
Orang-utan Cup
Monkey Grip
Melbourne Punch
The Bulletin
Meanjin
Southerly
Rich
Ignorant
Fat
Super
Dymphna Cusack
Jill Hellyer
Dal Stivens
Walter Stone
Hamilton Island
Lizard Island
Dunk Island
Green Island
1945
1987
2001
1951
Louis Nowra
Stephen Sewell
David Williamson
Michael Gow
The Darkening Ecliptic
The Widening Gyre
Robber of Dead Men's Dreams
The Black Swan of Trespass
I was educated by the Bible and Shakespeare.
The day of carousal was past and the day of work had begun.
Nature has planted in me a vast fund of cheery optimism.
Unemployed at last!
Captain Starlight
Henry Readford
Captain Thunderbolt
Ben Hall
Venturesome
Misrule
Ornery
Wayward
Miles Franklin's "My Brilliant Career"
David Malouf's "Johnno"
Peter Kocan's "Fresh Fields"
Christina Stead's "For Love Alone"
The name of a public house
A call to church
The chime of a ship's clock
A warning of danger
Land of sweeping plains
Endless, roaming land
Land of the rainbow gold
Wilful, lavish land
Leichhardt's search for an overland route from Sydney to Darwin
Burke & Wills' crossing of the continent from south to north
Eyre's coastal expedition across Southern Australia
Hovell & Hume's discovery of Mount Disappointment
The 1868 tour of an all Aboriginal cricket team to England
The 1966 Wave Hill Walk-off led by Vincent Lingiari
The 1788 resistance led by Pemulwuy to the raising of the Union Jack
The 1965 'freedom rides' led by Charles Perkins
Ernest Henry Burgmann
Philip Adams
Eva Cox
Donald Horne
United Kingdom
United States
China
India
Christ's love
War memorials
Aging
Memories
The racially motivated murder of his uncle
His parents' immigration to Australia
The discovery of his cultural heritage
The death of his beloved pet
Humour
Music
Patriotism
Dreams
Oodgeroo Noonaccul
Truganini
Raymattja Marika
Borrong
A 1920s cheerfully eccentric bag-lady
A 1920s screen actress
A 1950s member of the Sydney 'Push'
A 1910s understudy to Dame Nellie Melba
An injured child on a ski field
A New Years Eve party in a caravan park
A violent storm at the beach
A cancelled Christmas flight
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