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Understanding the journals (text version)

After listening to the two descriptions of the kangaroo answer the questions in this quiz. Choose the best option and click that box. One question in the quiz has more than one right answer.

If you make any mistakes re-do these questions at the end of the quiz.

Question 1:

How would the members of the First Fleet have known what to call this animal?

  1. Cook heard Aboriginal people call it a kangaroo
  2. Cook had written about it in his diary
  3. They had seen kangaroos in a zoo

Question 2:

Arthur Bowes was the surgeon with the First Fleet. He referred to a ‘kangooroo’ in his journal. Why did he spell the word wrongly?

  1. Bowes spelled it the way he heard it
  2. He had misheard the word
  3. Many people in the First Fleet could not read or write

Question 3:

According to Hunter a kangaroo’s tail is about how long?

  1. Forty centimetres long
  2. One metre long
  3. 140 centimetres long

Question 4:

Where do you think Leadenhall market was?

  1. Britain
  2. Sydney
  3. Melbourne

Question 5:

What most impressed Hunter about the kangaroo?

  1. Its forefeet
  2. The strength of its tail
  3. Its taste

Question 6:

In Hunter’s journal what does the word ‘relish’ mean?

  1. Enthusiasm
  2. To like
  3. A sauce

Question 7:

In Hunter’s journal the word ‘endeavour’ is:

  1. an adjective
  2. a noun
  3. a verb.

Question 8:

Bowes refers to a ‘false belly’. He is writing about the kangaroo’s:

  1. joey
  2. pouch
  3. stomach.

Question 9:

In the extracts from Bowes' diary he spends most of his time writing about the kangaroo’s:

  1. description by Cook
  2. young
  3. taste.

Question 10:

In Hunter’s opinion the kangaroo uses its tail to do what?

  1. To stop it from going backwards.
  2. To keep other animals away.
  3. To swat flies.

Solution

Question 1:
How would the members of the First Fleet have known what to call this animal?

  1. Cook heard Aboriginal people call it a kangaroo
  2. Cook had written about it in his diary
  3. They had seen kangaroos in a zoo

Answer:
Cook heard Aboriginal people call it a kangaroo
Cook had written about it in his diary

Question 2:
Arthur Bowes was the surgeon with the First Fleet. He referred to a ‘kangooroo’ in his journal. Why did he spell the word wrongly?

  1. Bowes spelled it the way he heard it
  2. He had misheard the word
  3. Many people in the First Fleet could not read or write

Answer:
Bowes spelled it the way he heard it

Question 3:
According to Hunter a kangaroo’s tail is about how long?

  1. Forty centimetres long
  2. One metre long
  3. 140 centimetres long

Answer:
One metre long

Question 4:
Where do you think Leadenhall market was?

  1. Britain
  2. Sydney
  3. Melbourne

Answer:
Britain

Question 5:
What most impressed Hunter about the kangaroo?

  1. Its forefeet
  2. The strength of its tail
  3. Its taste

Answer:
The strength of its tail

Question 6:
In Hunter’s journal what does the word ‘relish’ mean?

  1. Enthusiasm
  2. To like
  3. A sauce

Answer:
Enthusiasm

Question 7:
In Hunter’s journal the word ‘endeavour’ is:

  1. an adjective
  2. a noun
  3. a verb.

Answer:
a noun

Question 8:
Bowes refers to a ‘false belly’. He is writing about the kangaroo’s:

  1. joey
  2. pouch
  3. stomach.

Answer:
pouch

Question 9:
In the extracts from Bowes' diary he spends most of his time writing about the kangaroo’s:

  1. description by Cook
  2. young
  3. taste.

Answer:
taste.

Question 10:
In Hunter’s opinion the kangaroo uses its tail to do what?

  1. To stop it from going backwards.
  2. To keep other animals away.
  3. To swat flies.

Answer:
To keep other animals away.