Quotes

Question 1

What does Gladys say referring to their class during her speech?

Answer 1

We’re second-class citizens in our own country”

Question 2

When Gladys is initially enquired by Errol about encyclopedias, what does Nan say about aboriginals?

Answer 2

Ask him what it says in that there encyclopaedia about Aborigines, eh?

Question 3

What does Gladys says during her speech about their control?

Answer 3

We demand the right to control our own destiny

Question 4

What does Nan say to Gladys when she talks about the job available at Trevaks for Dolly?

Answer 4

A girl from the flats? I dont even see the town aboriginals working in stores

Question 5

What does Nan tell Errol to refer to her as after saying can marry dolly?

Answer 5

It’s ’Nan Dear’ to you…son

Question 6

What does Gladys say to Dolly after their argument about their place in society?

Answer 6

You have to learn to not let them shame you

Question 7

What does Dolly say to Gladys during their argument about their place in society?

Answer 7

You’re always telling me to stick up for myself, but when do you do it, eh?

Question 8

What does the radio say about humpy housing?

Answer 8

[voiceover] form riverbank to humpy to White House is quite a step

Question 9

What are the stage directions for the end of the rumbalara dream sequence?

Answer 9

The lights go down, then come up on the new housing. It’s concrete, small, white and featureless

Question 10

What does Gladys say when protesting on the radio about her land?

Answer 10

I belong here - this is my land

Question 11

What does Gladys say about Dollys achievements to the bank manager?

Answer 11

She’s just completed her Leaving Certificate - first in her family - with real good grades

Question 12

What are the stage directions while Gladys is talking to the bank manager/

Answer 12

Her earnest dialogue is nearly heard as we hear Dolly…picking fruit in an orchard and singing Catch a Falling Star

Question 13

What is the stage direction at the bank about china cups?

Answer 13

On the bank managers desk is a tray with two china cups
Pours a cup for himself and does offer one to Gladys

Question 14

what does the bank anger say to Gladys about rapport?

Answer 14

Now, rapport with customers is important…

Question 15

What does the bank manager say about dolly?

Answer 15

She may not “fit in”

Question 16

What does nan empathetically say about her tribe?

Answer 16

They’ve had it hard

Question 17

What does Gladys say about white people education during her speech?

Answer 17

The white people too…they need to be educated about us, and our ways

Question 18

What reference does dolly make about Nancy and her home?

Answer 18

Nancy Woolthorpe has this great big fake tree

Question 19

What is the quote sentence nan has about finding a job?

Answer 19

Nan knows a girl “from the flats” will not be considered for the job because of her “address”

Question 20

What obsession does Gladys comment on?

Answer 20

The obsession with whiteness

Question 21

What is the stage direction for Gladys dream sequence of dolly being a graduate?

Answer 21

Gladys looks around, fearful that hr daydream has been witnessed, but it hasn’t

Question 22

What does the inspector say about the women taking leadership over the housing issue?

Answer 22

It is a vexed issue, for sure, but someone must take leadership

Question 23

What does nan say about whiteness?

Answer 23

As if [being white] were the be-all and end-all. As if that were the bloody be-all and end-all

Question 24

What does Gladys say about learning during her speech?

Answer 24

They say we can’t learn,but we can. We can do anything if we set our minds t it, eh?

Question 25

What foreshadows dolly’s baby later in the book, other than cousin interactions

Answer 25

Dolly pushes a pram, which holds a kero tin

Question 26

What does Gladys demand for indigenous education?

Answer 26

We demand proper schooling

Question 27

How does nan respond to gladys saying she wants to see the inspectors report?

Answer 27

And what bloody god would that do?! Daydreams!

Question 28

What does Gladys and the stage directions do in response to nans response to gladys wanting to see the inspectors report?way

Answer 28

They’re not really daydreams - Gladys Because she intends to make them come true - stage directions

Question 29

What does nan say to Gladys after she returns from attempting to see the queen?

Answer 29

Good daught. where do you get these high falutin’ ideas from?

Question 30

What does nan say to Gladys after she instructs dolly to practice her French words - how does Gladys respond?

Answer 30

You put ideas into that girls head She needs to know the world is bigger than just this

Question 31

What does the radio announcer say about a boomerang?

Answer 31

[voiceover] and just to remind the royal couple that they were in Australia, we showed them how to throw a boomerang

Question 32

What are the stage directions for Gladys dream sequence of dolly graduating?

Answer 32

The lights change for a dream sequence. Gladys sees dolly in a robe and clapboard hat

Question 33

What are the stage directions for Gladys before she presents the speech?

Answer 33

[gladys] marches up to the podium

Question 34

What does dolly tell Errol she would like to be?

Answer 34

It’s silly, but i would like to be a nurse

Question 35

What does dolly say to her mum when they are arguing about their place in society?

Answer 35

It’s me that gets stones thrown at her when i walk down the street. It’s me that gets snide remarks

Question 36

What does dolly tell her mum that she (Gladys) thinks are the answers to everything?

Answer 36

…you think books and school are the answer to everything

Question 37

What does Gladys say about possessions?

Answer 37

They’re only possessions…people is what matters

Question 38

What does Gladys say about Papa dear when with Errol?

Answer 38

All the things he does to help our people

Question 39

What does the inspector respond with when he hears about daishs’s?

Answer 39

I’m not familiar with the department stores around here

Question 40

What does dolly say to Errol about his knowledge?

Answer 40

You got an encyclopedia, so how come you know nothing, eh?

Question 41

What does queen elizabeth say on the radio about the land?

Answer 41

Standing on this spot, on Australian soil, which is the birthplace of the nation

Question 42

What does Gladys say about the hessian when the queen visits

Answer 42

Hessian! Like a baindaid over a sore

Question 43

What does nan say about their rights at the humpy?

Answer 43

Least here we do things our way - no-one breathing down our necks

Question 44

What does Gladys ask white people during her speech about housing?

Answer 44

…would you live at rumbalara? Then why is it good enough for us?

Question 45

What does Gladys say about the queen during her speech?

Answer 45

Maybe our current monarch will listen to what we have to say

Question 46

What does Gladys say to snap back at the radio presenters when she interrupts?

Answer 46

I haven’t finished. In fact, I’m just starting

Question 47

What are the stage directions of dolly when she leaves the ball?

Answer 47

[dolly] wipes away a tear and tries to compose herself

Question 48

What does nan says about being served last?

Answer 48

When you’re the last to be served, you hear a lot of things

Question 49

What does nan say about the negative side of being smart?

Answer 49

Don’t get too clever, my girl… you get knocked down when you get too clever

Question 50

What’re does nan ask them to ask Errol about the encyclopaedia?

Answer 50

Ask him what it says in that there encyclops about the aborigines, eh?

Question 51

What is the main quote where Errol stumbles on his words?

Answer 51

If i could be permitted to demonstrate its points, it’s um, say… say…

Question 52

What doe the women say about being around others?

Answer 52

The women want to “be near the other families”

Question 53

What does dolly say about her flooring compared to others?

Answer 53

Don’t matter if the floors are dirt. Don’t matter one bit

Question 54

What does dolly say is a real home?

Answer 54

But…a real home? A real home is where there are people looking out for each other

Question 55

What does dolly say her mum thinks about white housing?

Answer 55

The whitefellas in their fancy new homes that mum reckons they think is too good for black fellas

Question 56

What does nan know about whitefellas?

Answer 56

Nan knows the danger of being “[taken] advantage of” of a “whitefella”

Question 57

What are the stage directions for after the flood?

Answer 57

The water has drained away, be the devastation has been wrought. Everything is saturated and muddy

Question 58

What does Gladys demand about equality in her speech?

Answer 58

We, the undersigned, dem,and to be equal to anyone