We hope that teachers, students and community members will enjoy these interactive quizzes and activities. Each is based on the information from particular parts of the online publication.

Getting around - Check your knowledge of the facts with a short multiple choice quiz then challenge yourself with two thought-provoking questions.

Keeping healthy - This activity asks you to think about some of the food and health issues during World War II by imagining yourself as

• a mother writing to her son serving overseas about food rationing
• an American serviceman invited to the home of an Australian family
• Australian Minister of Health explaining the government's new regulations on tuberculosis
• Director of Lady Lawley Cottage being interviewed about the current epidemic of poliomyelitis.

Make do and mend - This activity focuses on fashion and coping with shortages and rationing in daily life in the war years. You are asked to imagine yourself as

• a businessman who lost his suitcase of clothing
• a government employee with the task of producing a pamphlet for women to encourage wise use of clothing coupons
• a journalist with the Women's Weekly who is reporting a wedding for the gossip column 'On and Off Duty'
• a young person describing a typical day out at Cottesloe beach to a friend.