Author and Background
Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina are Aboriginal writers.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE
A skinny man with glasses, is the heir of a rich family in a rural Australian town who donated a house for a children's home.
Alexander Sholt
How did Beth die?
In a car accident
I’m a ball curled up. I’m a glass thrown against rock. Shattered. Bits of me everywhere. I’ll never find them all. No one will.
Catching
Which Prime Minister made a formal apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008?
a) Kevin Rudd
b) Julia Gillard
c) Tony Abbott
d) Scott Morrison
a) Kevin Rudd
What year was Catching Teller Crow first published?
a) 2015
b) 2016
c) 2017
d) 2018
d) 2018
A tall man with unkempt hair, he provides medical care for the children at the children’s home in a rural Australian town.
Martin Flint
Why did Beth's grandpa kick her father (Michael) out of home?
He began seeing Beth's mum, an Aboriginal.
‘You have colours. So many. Soon they’ll come and you won’t be full of colours. You’ll be full of screams.’
Crow
The following quote can be best described as:
"My father was stuck in grief like a man caught in a muddy swamp."
a) rhyme
b) personification
c) alliteration
d) simile
d) simile
The following aspect of First Nations beliefs were used to create which character?
"Aboriginal family connections extend beyond human beings to encompass all life. These connections can also reach past one cycle of existence to shape the next."
Crow
Who are the two Fetchers?
Martin Flint and Tom Cavanagh
Who killed Cavanagh, Flint, Sholt and Bell? And what was the murder "weapon"?
Crow, her curved beak.
‘She has colours,’
‘Bright,’
‘Beautiful. Like a rainbow.’
‘Are you alone, little rainbow?’
(Two characters)
The Fetchers
What day is your exam in Week 9?
Tuesday
The Stolen Generations occurred between:
a) 1788 and 1888
b) 1910 and 1970
c) 1810 and 1870
d) 1950 and 2000
b) 1910 and 1970
Freckly, redheaded she is the second-in-command to local police chief Derek Bell in the rural Australian town where they both grew up.
Allie Hartley
What location was "The Beneath" that Catching describes she was taken?
The underground bunker built by Oscar Sholt
The colours were the place I’d glimpsed right after I’d died. The other side. And they were singing, or someone was. I couldn’t make out the words, but it sounded like a welcoming song. The kind a mother might sing to her child. I’d finally found Mum.
Beth
The authors of Catching Teller Crow are from which Australian state?
Western Australia
"Life doesn't move through time. Time moves through life."
Grandpa Jim
Who gave Catching's great-great-grandma the name "Catching."?
Her white boss
At the end of the novel Catching, Crow and Beth dissolved into which three colours?
Green (Catching), black (Crow) and yellow (Beth).
This all there is? Seems thin, for an investigation into a missing kid.’
Who said it and who is the "kid" they are talking about?
Michael Teller, Sarah Blue
The name of the Australian Human Rights Commission report into the Stolen Generations was titled "Bringing Them _______ "
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