Aboriginal Dreaming Stories

Question 1

What's the next line: "I came from the dreamtime, From the dusty red soil plains I am

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the ancient heart

Question 2

Which is incorrect with reference to Dreamtime Stories?

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Stories when someone dreams

Question 3

Why are there Dreamtime Stories?

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To explain how the Aboriginal ancestral spirits made Earth

Question 4

A long, long time ago - in the Dreamtime - what colour were the birds?

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Black

Question 5

Dreamtime stories are based on real events?

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false

Question 6

Stories by Indigenous Australians can be

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all of the above

Question 7

Where do the Dreamtime stories come from?

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Australia

Question 8

What are the three elements of Aboriginal dreamtime stories?

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Animals, Land, Ancestral Spirits

Question 9

Aboriginal stories are.....

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unique to their tribe

Question 10

What are Dreamtime Stories about?

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How the world was made

Question 11

The Dreamtime is both

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past and present

Question 12

Why are Dreamtime stories useful?

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They are the main source of culture, law and relationship, They were how information and history were passed down

Question 13

The Dreamtime stories of Australia have been used:

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by aboriginals to explain creation and the land

Question 14

Why did Aboriginals tell Dreamtime stories?

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To pass on knowledge, history and beliefs

Question 15

Dreamtime stories are important because of which of the following:

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They pass on culture and identity

Question 16

The passing down of stories and traditions from onegeneration to the next is

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oral tradition

Question 17

Who told the Dreamtime stories?

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The Aboriginees

Question 18

What is the purpose of Dreamtime stories?

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To entertain, To explain how the land and animals were created, To teach lessons about how people should live

Question 19

The Dreamtime stories are an example of water being important __________

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Both 1 and 3

Question 20

What is the Dreamtime?

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Aboriginal beliefs of how the world and life was created

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