Test your knowledge of Australian Literature with The Fair Dinkum Australian Book Quiz. 10 Questions on classic Australian books and contemporary masterpieces. Enjoy!
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The Fair Dinkum Australian Book Quiz
Results
#1. Which Australian book won the 2003 Booker Prize?
Unlucky! DBC Pierre’s debut novel Vernon God Little won the prize
#2. Who wrote the 1991 novel Cloudstreet?
Unlucky! Tim Winton wrote the family saga Cloudstreet
#3. Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally was set in which country?
Unlucky! It was set in Brněnec in the now Czech Republic
#4. The Miles Franklin Literary Award was fist awarded in which year?
Unlucky! It was first awarded in 1957.
#5. Complete the title of Debra Dank’s 2022 memoir We Come …..
Unlucky! The title was We Come with this Place
#6. What was Stella Maria Miles Franklin’s best known work?
Unlucky! My Brilliant Career was her most famous work, published in 1901
#7. Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton was set in which city?
Unlucky!, Published in 2018, it was set in the suburbs of Brisbane
#8. Dorrigo Evans’s story is told in which novel?
Unlucky! Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North tells the story of Alwyn “Dorrigo” Evans
#9. Who wrote the The Harp in the South, published in 1948?
Unlucky! It was written by Ruth Park, her debut novel
#10. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute was published in which year?
Unlucky! Nevil Shute’s classic was first published in 1950
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