Aussie moments
One of the characters complains that the only meals he has been eating are w_________ stew.
wallaby
The wild horses of the high country are ___________.
brumbies
Instead of coffee they drink _______.
tea
There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
That the colt from Old Regret had got away.
What is "Old Regret"?
A horse - a mare who is the mother of the colt that got away.
When looking over the mountains, Jessica says that one minute the mountains can be like paradise and the next minute they are trying to kill you. What technique is she using to describe the mountains?
personification
The characters refer to their friends as __________.
mates
The alps where the film is set are the ____________ _________________________
Snowy Mountains.
The film is fundamentally built upon a poem by:
A. Banjo Paterson
B. Lewis Carroll
C. Mark Twain
D. Donald Trump
A. Banjo Paterson
So all the cracks had gathered to the fray.
Who are the cracks?
The best and most skilled stockmen, bushmen, and riders from the surrounding region.
What is the rhyming pattern of the poem?
There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
That the colt from Old Regret had got away,
And had joined the wild bush horses - he was worth a thousand pound,
So all the cracks had gathered to the fray.
ABAB
They wear hats called A____________.
Akubras
The houses where Jessica’s family lives have big rooves made of corrugated _______.
iron or tin
Rather than the dusty deserts often seen in American Westerns, The Man from Snowy River showcases a uniquely Australian alpine wilderness of rolling ridge lines and stark white snow _________. (a type of tree)
gums
When Banjo Patterson wrote The Man from Snowy River, most settlers in Australia were from:
A. China and Vietnam
B. Scotland and France
C. England and Ireland
D. New Zealand and Canada
C. England and Ireland
In the original poem The Man from Snowy River, Harrison is desribed as the man "who made his pile when Pardon won the cup".
Who or what is Pardon?
A race horse
One character describes another as being crazy as a _________________________ (a small, rat-like marsupial native to Australia).
bandicoot
The houses in this filma wide ________________ around them.
verandahs
True or false:
Unlike the lone-gunslinger trope of Hollywood, the Australian bushman archetype centers on horseback mastery, quiet resilience, and hard work.
True
In 1890, Australia had recently experienced:
A. gold rush and European immigration
B. civil war and revolution
C. invasion by the Danish
D. independence from English rule
A. gold rush and European immigration
If a ballad is a poem that tells a story and if we want to alliterate, what is the best description of The Man from Snowy River?
A. snowy ballad
B. bush ballad
C. posh poem
D. bush poem
E. snowy poem
B. bush ballad
The characters refer to chickens as _______________.
chooks
They characters in this film refer to their local area as the ______________ ___________________.
high country
In which year did Banjo Patterson write the original poem upon which the film is based?
A. 1790
B. 1970
C. 1980
D. 1890
D. 1890
Tales like Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River feature an underestimated youth on a modest horse who outrides seasoned veterans on dangerous slopes. This type of story is known as:
A. romantic comedy
B. science fiction
C. fantasty story
D. underdog triumph
E. science fiction
F. senseless horror
D. underdog triumph
What image does the following line of the original poem convey?
Down the hillside at a racing pace he went.
A. the tension between Jim and Jessica's father
B. the breakneck movement of the horses
C. the pace of the fading light at sunset
D. the melodrama of Jim's relationship with Jessica
B. the breakneck movement of the horses