CLOZE ACTIVITY ON ELSIE CURTIN

You can find the answers to all these questions in the Elsie and Eleanor section of the Women at Work display panels in the online exhibition John Curtin's Legacy: Leading Australia from war to peace.

Print out this page and choose words from the answer list to fill in the missing spaces in the sentences.

When you have completed the activity, you can check your answers online using the Answer Key.

ANSWER LIST

HOUSEHOLD
PRESS CONFERENCES
ELSIE CURTIN
PRIME MINISTER
POLITICS
JOHN CURTIN
SOCIAL ISSUES
COMMUNITY

PRIME MINISTER
THE LODGE
SHIPS
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
ELECTORAL WORK
HUSBAND
1975
COMMANDER
LABOR WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION

The prime minister's wife

This is a photograph of _______________________.

She was married to ________________________ who was

__________________________ of Australia during the war

years of 1941 to 1945.

Before she married, two of her main interests were in

________________ and ______________________ .

As wife of the leader of the Australian nation in wartime,

she carried out public duties such as launching _________ ,

entertaining important visitors at _______________ in Canberra,

and speaking at ___________________.

As well, she ran the __________________ , helped with her husband's___________________________ , and

was an active member of local _______________________________________ .

In the post-war period, she became a ________________________________ and was awarded a CBE

( _________________ of the British Empire) for her service to the _____________________ and to her

_________________ . She died in __________ .

Check how you went by comparing your answers with our Answer Key. l Online Activities Home Page