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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Joel win a small fortune gambling and buy the house at One Cloud Street?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1919.

2. In Joel’s will, it states that the house at One Cloud Street is left to Sam Pickles with what provision?
(a) That he leave it to his children when he dies.
(b) That he open a store there.
(c) That he not sell it for 20 years.
(d) That he sell it immediately.

3. How many fingers does Sam Pickles lose from his injury in Chapter I?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

4. Sam Pickles’s father is described in Chapter I as having passed along his love of what to his son?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Fancy cars.
(c) Nice clothing.
(d) Politics.

5. Which of the Lamb daughters is noted as being a remarkably good marbles player?
(a) Oriel Lamb.
(b) Red Lamb.
(c) Elaine Lamb.
(d) Hattie Lamb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sam Pickles’s father do for a living?

2. Whose idea is it initially to open a small grocery store in an empty room in the house at Number One Cloud Street in Chapter III?

3. What was the old woman that previously owned the house at One Cloud Street doing when she died, according to the narrator in Chapter III?

4. What member of the Pickles family is described in Chapter I as “a damned good-looking woman”?

5. In what room of the house at One Cloud Street did the old woman who previously owned it die?

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