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title: Australia and New Zealand: a short story — how Mova does on the tests · History
description: Lesson 40 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Australia and New Zealand: a short story

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**Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 5 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 40 of the history course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/).

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### Test 1 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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aussie mate says 26 jan is just a fun bbq day for everyone. what's he missing?

- **1.** It is actually Christmas — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It marks the gold rush — no support
- **3.** Nothing, every single person in Australia loves it just the same — no support
- **4.** Many Aboriginal people call it Invasion Day and feel sadness — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Two people sign a treaty but their two copies promise different things. What is likely to happen?

- **1.** Nothing, wording never matters — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The treaty becomes invisible — no support
- **3.** Everyone agrees for ever, because a signed treaty can never be argued over — no support
- **4.** Each side expects different things and disputes follow — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Before writing came to Australia, how could a person find their way across hundreds of kilometres?

- **1.** They could not travel at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** By reading street signs — no support
- **3.** By following a songline that carries the map of the land — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** By using a compass and a paper map brought over from Britain — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Why might a country where people stole bread to survive be a strange start for a nation?

- **1.** The convicts stayed prisoners for ever — no support
- **2.** Australia had no laws of any kind, so everybody could do just what they liked — no support
- **3.** It began as a prison colony, yet convicts became free farmers and citizens — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** It began as a holiday camp — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 40, line 2: «In 1788 eleven British ships, the First Fleet, brought convicts and soldiers to Sydney Cove; many convicts had been sent for small crimes like stealing food, a…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «become» (+2); the same thing acted on «free farmers» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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If a government says sorry for taking children from families, why might that matter even years later?

- **1.** It brings back the gold — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It changes nothing at all, because words cannot ever matter after so long — no support
- **3.** Many of those children and their families are still alive and hurting — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It is only a formality — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Why are Anzac Day services held at dawn?

- **1.** It is cheaper than evening — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It is to see the stars — no support
- **3.** Dawn is the only time when most people are free from work — no support
- **4.** The Gallipoli landing happened in the early morning — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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some guy online says hillary climbed everest alone. what's fair?

- **1.** He flew to the top — no support
- **2.** Yes, completely alone — no support
- **3.** Cook climbed it first — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** He climbed it with Tenzing Norgay from Nepal — **✓ the right answer** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 40, line 17: «In 1953 Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal were the first to climb Mount Everest.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «climb» (+5); the same thing acted on «mount everest» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Some British settlers spoke of Australia as nobody's land. How does very old rock art prove them wrong?

- **1.** They prove nothing — no support
- **2.** The art was painted in 1788 — no support
- **3.** They show people had lived there for a very long time — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Rock art is made by nature alone — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 40, line 1: «Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 years, one of the oldest living cultures on Earth, carrying maps of t…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «live» (+2); the same doer «aboriginal» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893 and Britain in 1918 and 1928. What does that show?

- **1.** A small country can lead the world on a big idea — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** New Zealand was part of the USA — no support
- **3.** Britain was always first — no support
- **4.** Votes did not matter then — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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A game gives you a free colony in Australia in 1788 with 'no population'. What would a historian change?

- **1.** Add the Aboriginal peoples who had lived there for over 50,000 years — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11
- **2.** Add the Romans — no support
- **3.** Nothing, the land was empty — no support
- **4.** Add Vikings — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 40, line 1: «Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 years, one of the oldest living cultures on Earth, carrying maps of t…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+5); the same doer «aboriginal» (+4); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Why do both Australia and New Zealand count Gallipoli as part of becoming nations?

- **1.** They were founded at Gallipoli — score 0
- **2.** They won the whole war there — score 0
- **3.** They both became British then — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **4.** Their soldiers fought side by side and the memory helped each feel like its own nation — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 40, line 15: «New Zealand still works to keep the treaty's promises, and Waitangi Day, 6 February, is its national day.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «new zealand» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Identify the minimum duration for which Aboriginal peoples are known to have inhabited Australia.

- **1.** Fifty thousand years — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Five hundred years — no support
- **3.** Five thousand years — no support
- **4.** Two hundred and fifty years — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the principal source of dispute arising from the Treaty of Waitangi?

- **1.** Its being written in French — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Divergence between its English and Māori texts — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Its cession of New Zealand to Australia — no support
- **4.** Its never having been signed — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Ascertain the year in which the Australian colonies were federated as the Commonwealth of Australia.

- **1.** Nineteen hundred and fifteen — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Seventeen hundred and eighty-eight — no support
- **3.** Nineteen hundred and one — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Eighteen hundred and forty — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the first ascent of Mount Everest.

- **1.** It was accomplished by James Cook in seventeen hundred and seventy — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It was accomplished by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in nineteen hundred and fifty-three — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It has never been accomplished — no support
- **4.** It was accomplished by Edmund Hillary alone — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/e4/)

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