17/1/2021 Cidunt Adv-5-regular Reading quiz

Cidunt Adv-5-regular Reading quiz

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Eric Bogle is a singer and songwriter born in Peebles, Scotland in 1944, but emigrated to
Australia when he was 25 years old. He began writing, and playing music, while he still lived
in Scotland, but rose to worldwide fame after he arrived in Australia. In 1971 he wrote “And
the Band Played Waltzing Matilda”, a song about the experiences of Australian conscript
soldiers fighting in World War One in the Battle of Gallipoli of 1915, a key point in modern
Australia, which in 1914 was obliged to support the imperial government of Britain. The
original “Waltzing Matilda”, as referred to in the title of Eric Bogle’s song, is an Australian
bush-ballad which tells of a wandering (-“waltzing”) traveller carrying his possessions in his
“matilda” bag on his back, who ends his life jumping (or being chased) into a billabong (-a
pond or lake). One of the best-known and popular songs in Australia, it is sometimes called
the “unofficial national anthem” of the country, with a tune based on a 19th-centrury Scottish
song. But Bogle's song, “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” had a very different focus,
and while it is about the experiences of Gallipoli, it was also written as an analogy to the War
in Vietnam, where in 1971 soldiers from the USA, Australia and other countries were
involved, but with growing concerns over their impact and their long-term consequences
both to Vietnam and in other countries. In 2001 “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” was
named one of the Top 30 Australian Songs in the 2001 Australasian Performing Right
Association’s 75th Anniversary.

Five years later, in 1976, Bogle wrote and performed “No Man’s Land”, also known as “The
Green Fields of France”. Again referring to the legacy of World War One, both titles allude to
“ambiguous territory”, the land between confronting armies in the trench warfare of France
and Belgium and where, in the same areas, thousands of war-dead were buried in military
cemeteries. This land was lifeless brown earth, the soil between the trenches during the war,
but as cemeteries they are now carefully tended and grassed over, while the colour green
also matches that of the “Emerald Isle”, as Ireland is popularly known. Thousands of Irish
conscripts, along with soldiers from other countries, died in the fighting, as with their
Australian counterparts, ordered to fight by the British authorities who then ruled across
Ireland. Bogle was inspired by another conflict of the 1970s, “The Troubles” between warring
communities in the British-controlled Northern section of Ireland, which at that time was at
its worst, and was resulting in widespread prejudice against Irish people in Britain. With
good justice, “No Man’s Land” became popular both in Ireland and Britain, and around the
world, including covers and translations into Czech, German, French, Welsh, and Swedish.

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Both “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” and “No Man’s Land” are 0/1
nominally about....

World War One

The 1970s

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The actual "Green Fields of France” are now in .... 0/1

France and Belgium.

Ireland.

Eric Bogle emigrated to Australia in 1/1

1969

1971

US and Australian involvement in the War in Vietnam .... 1/1

had popular support.

was criticised.

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Australian and Irish soldiers fought in World War One through ..... 1/1

choice.

obligation.

By the 1970s, the impact of the Vietnam War was .... 0/1

confined within Vietnam.

having impacts around the world.

In this reading we can find reference to "A.P.R.A."(!) as a(n) ......... organisation. 1/1

Peruvian

Australian

The “Waltzing” in “Waltzing Matilda” means to.. 1/1

dance

walk

In the 1970s there was prejudice against Irish people in .... 0/1

Northern Ireland.

Britain.

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“And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” is about... 1/1

World War One

The War in Vietnam

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