Clancy of the Overflow

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1. Which of these is the opening line to the poem? I am sitting in my dingy little office... And an answer came directed... And the bush hath friends to meet him... I had written him a letter...

2. Where did the person telling the story of Clancy first meet him? Down the Murray Down the Lachlan Down the Darling Down the Murrumbidgee

3. Clancy was in Victoria droving. True False

4. What word is used to describe the sunlit plains? Beautiful There are no sunlit plains Magnificent Splendid

5. Where is the story teller sitting during all this? Sandy beach He is standing Drover's hut Dingy office

6. Instead of lowing cattle, what can the story teller hear? buses and trams planes and boats trains and cars he is deaf, he can't hear anything.

7. What sort of eyes do the hurrying people have? Eager Large Beady Brown

8. Whose language uninviting comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet? the city kids the farm children the street kids the gutter children

9. Clancy would suit working in an office. True False

10. Is there a place named after Clancy's Overflow? Yes No