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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who becomes upset in Chapter IV when the Lamb and Pickles families go to burn the Guy Fawkes effigy?
(a) Rose Pickles.
(b) Quick Lamb.
(c) Dolly Pickles.
(d) Fish Lamb.

2. Who discovers Quick Lamb after his injury in Chapter VI?
(a) Mr. Wentworth.
(b) Mery Pickles.
(c) Sam Pickles.
(d) Oriel Lamb.

3. What is the Lamb family fishing for in the opening of Chapter II?
(a) Prawns.
(b) Catfish.
(c) Trout.
(d) Crayfish.

4. How does Joel die in Chapter I?
(a) He has a stroke.
(b) He has a heart attack.
(c) He develops tuberculosis.
(d) He is hit by a train.

5. What did Sam Pickles’s father do for a living?
(a) He was a taxidermist.
(b) He was a water diviner.
(c) He was a bus driver.
(d) He was a college professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Aborigine going that Quick Lamb picks up hitchhiking in Chapter VI?

2. What character is the youngest child in the Lamb family?

3. What is the name of the talking cockatoo that Sam Pickles wins gambling in Chapter IV?

4. How did one of the Aboriginal women commit suicide at One Cloud Street, according to the narrator in Chapter III?

5. What do the members of the Lamb family spin in order to determine who will wash dishes in Chapter III?

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