WACE Modern History Practice Questions
The 64 practice questions inside the WACE Modern History Mastery Pack, grouped by area of study. Every question comes with a full worked solution.
- Elective 1: Australia 1918–1949
- Multiple choice × 8
- Explain × 1
- Discuss × 1
- Analyse × 1
- Elective 2: Russia and the Soviet Union 1914–1945
- Multiple choice × 8
- Outline × 1
- Discuss × 1
- Evaluate × 1
- Elective 3: China 1945–1989
- Multiple choice × 8
- Account for × 1
- Examine × 1
- Elective 1: The changing European world since 1945
- Multiple choice × 8
- Explain × 1
- Assess × 1
- Debate × 1
- Elective 2: Australia's engagement with Asia since 1945
- Multiple choice × 8
- Discuss × 1
- Evaluate × 1
- Elective 3: The struggle for peace in the Middle East since 1945
- Multiple choice × 8
- Outline × 1
- Assess × 1
- Debate × 1
Source 1 [Constructed description]: A page from a 1920 Western Australian Group Settlement pamphlet, produced by the State Department of Lands, showing an illustration of a returned soldier and his family standing before a partly cleared timber block, captioned “A home and a future on the land for every returned man.”
Identify the origin of Source 1 and explain its message.
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Answer: Worked solution
Origin (2 marks): Source 1 is a promotional pamphlet produced by a state government department (the WA Department of Lands) in 1920, aimed at returned servicemen being encouraged to take up blocks under the Soldier Settlement Scheme.
Message (2 marks): the image and caption present group settlement as delivering secure land ownership, family stability and a productive future to returned soldiers. By showing a family already settled with a cleared block, the source reassures the public that the government was meeting its repatriation obligations and encourages further soldiers to apply, understating the difficulties of clearing unproductive land that many settlers actually faced.
Mark allocation: origin 2, message 2 (total 4).
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