Characters
1. What does Papa Dear do?
1. He is a civil rights activist fighting for the rights of Aboriginals
1. What is the name of the town where the White Australians live?
1. Shepparton
1. When did the British first colonize Australia?
1. 1788
1. What is a humpy?
1. It's a man-made shack/home for very poor people like Aboriginals in the countryside
1. What month was Edwin born in?
*5 guesses
1. October
1. Who is Ester? What happens to her in the play?
2. What job does Errol have?
1. She is neighbor of the Dear family. Her husband beats her and later, the government takes her childen away
2. he is a encyclopedia salesman
1. Who does Gladys want to see at the beginning of the story?
2. Papa Dear is Gladys's real father--True or False?
1. Queen Elizabeth II
2. False
1. What kind of people did the UK send to Australia?
2. Where in Australia is Arnhem Land (the most traditional Aboriginal part of Australia)?
1. prisoners/criminals/convicts
2. The Northern Territory
1. What is a broadcast?
2. what does "funny in the head" on pg. 125 mean?
1. an announcement on the radio or TV
2. someone that acts strange
1. What is Hillary's favorite food?
* 2 words + 6 guesses
2. What is Edwin's favorite food?
*can be red or green + 6 guesses
1. Hot pot
2. tomato
1. Which character was forced to move to Mooroopna?
2. What is the name of the girl that humiliates Dolly at the dance?
3. Which character cannot read or write?
1. Nan Dear
2. Nancy
3. Gladys
1. What is a "voice over"?
2. What is the name of the song we hear several times in the story?
3. What are the "encyclops"?
1. a voice you can hear on the TV or radio
2. Que Sera Sera
3. Encyclopedias that Gladys buys from Errol
1. The Aboriginals have the longest continuous culture in the world--True or False?
2. What did Prime Minister Gough Whitlam give Aboriginal Vincent Lingiari in 1975 that was symbolically very important?
3. When the Europeans first came to Australia, the Aboriginals all had the same language and cultural practices--True or False?
1. T
2. soil/dirt=give back control of the land
3. F--they had 200-500
1. What does the phrase "the lights go down" mean?
2. What animal does Nan skin? What does "to skin" mean? Scene One B
3. What is a black eye?
1. It gets dark on stage in a theater
2. a rabbit/to cut off the skin of an animal to prepare to cook it
3. when you get hit or punched in your eye, and the skin turns black around it
1. What province was Edwin born in?
*6 guesses
2. What province was Joyce born in?
*6 guesses
3. What province is Hillary from?
*6 guesses
1. Hubei
2. Jiangsu
3. Anhui
1. Who is Regina?
2. Who is Clem Fisher?
3. Which country did Errol's family originally come from?
4. Which character tells Errol to call her "aunty"?
1. Dolly's baby
2. the man who raped Nan Dear
3. Germany
4. Gladys
1. What keeps happening to the Dear family humpy?
2. What city does Errol want to move too?
3. What happens at the cork trees?
4. Why can Dolly not get a job at the bank?
1. flooding
2. Melbourne
3. people drink alcohol or just sit around not working
4. Because she is Aboriginal and White people don't want to deal with her
1. What happened in 1967 for Aboriginals?
2. What 3 things did the Aboriginals suffer from?
d_________, d___________, and g_________
3. What was the Stolen Generation?
4. What province is Mooroopna/Shepparton in?
1. they became Australian citizens
2. dispossession, disease, and genocide
3. They were Aboriginal children taken from their parents and forced to live in government housing to learn how to be domestic/manual workers + destroy their culture
4. Victoria
4.
1. What does the phrase "can't teach an old dog new tricks"? pg. 130
2. What is a mink stole? Scene One B
3. What is Pick-A-Box?
4. What is a "beat" mean in a play?
1. It's more difficult for older people to change
2. a mink coat (made of animal fur)
3. a TV game show
4. a long pause
1. What job does Edwin's wife do?
2. What job does Joseph's sister do?
3. What job does Joyce's husband do?
4. What job does Hillary's husband do?
*total of 24 guesses
1. teacher
2. waitress
3. police man
4. teacher
1. What job will Dolly train for?
2. At the end of the story, how does Nan Dear change with Errol?
3. Errol Fisher is a real Fisher--true or false?
4. Why does Gladys want to see Queen Elizabeth?
5. What kind of petition does Gladys write for Queen Elizabeth? What are 3 things she wants?
1. nurse
2. she respects him and realizes he is a good man for Dolly
3. False
4. Because Queen Elizabeth represents White culture, which Gladys wants to be a part of
5. A petition to give Aboriginals more rights and better treatment. Better housing, schools, right to go to university, have better town jobs, become Australian citizens, and make their own decisions. Also for White people to learn about Aboriginal culture
1. What does the bank manager do that is rude to Gladys?
2. What holiday do Errol and Dolly compare?
3. Who do Nan Dear and Gladys initially (at first) raped Dolly?
4. What kind of house do the Dear family later have to move into?
5. What happens when Gladys goes to the city meeting before the counsillor
1. He doesn't offer her a cup of tea when he pours one for himself
2. Christmas
3. Errol
4. concrete
5. She gets angry because the Aboriginals are denied good housing in the towns like the White people are. They have to live either in humpies or tiny concrete homes
1. What river do the Dear family live next too?
2. What city is the capital city of Victoria Province?
3. What river is Cummeragunja (Nan's original home) near?
4. Why did Nan have to leave her home and move to Mooroopna?
5. In the movie we watched, what kind of animal was the fence built to stop that the 3 girls used to follow back home?
1. Goulburn River
2. Melbourne
3. Murray
4. in 1915, the government made life very difficult for the Aboriginal farmers by giving them bad quality food and taking too much of their $$ away. Also diseases like tuberculosis was bad
5. rabbit
1. What is linoleum? Scene Three
2. What is a cannery? Scene Three
3. What does hostile mean? Scene Five
4. what is the jitterbug? Scene Five
5. What does assimilation mean? Scene Six
1. a type of floor
2. a type of factory that puts food into cans
3. to show you don't like someone/thing
4. a type of fast dance from the 1950's
5. to become a part of the dominant culture
1. What is Edwin's favorite color?
2. What is Hillary's favorite color?
3. What color does Joseph not like?
4. What is Edwin's favorite sport?
5. What color does Edwin not like?
6. What does Edwin like to do in his free time?
*36 guesses in total
1. green
2. green
3. gold
4. basketball
5. brown
6. spend time with his family