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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Quick’s son is born in Chapter IX, Quick remarks that the baby is slippery like what?
(a) Wax.
(b) Water.
(c) Silk.
(d) Oil.

2. Rose Pickles learns from her coworkers about how to get dates by flirting on the phone in Chapter VIII. Where do the women tell their prospective dates to meet them?
(a) Outside the soda shop.
(b) Outside the post office.
(c) At a French café.
(d) Outside the library.

3. What is the name of the son that Rose gives birth to in Chapter IX?
(a) Harry Lamb.
(b) Mery Lamb.
(c) Lon Lamb.
(d) Joel Lamb.

4. Where do Rose and Quick have their wedding reception in Chapter VIII?
(a) Cloudstreet.
(b) An Anglican church.
(c) The Returned Servicemen’s League hall.
(d) The monument in the center of

5. To what southwestern town in Australia does Quick Lamb drive after dropping off the Aborigine hitchhiker in Chapter VI?
(a) Margaret River.
(b) Pemberton.
(c) Southern Cross.
(d) Fremantle.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is the last day of what decade when Rose and Quick find a flat in Chapter IX?

2. Where in the house do Rose and Quick make love in Chapter VIII?

3. How does Fish Lamb die in Chapter X?

4. What does the black man by the river tell Quick Lamb to do in Chapter IX?

5. What is the name of the Perth suburb that has the nearest shops to Cloud Street, across the railroad tracks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the images on the walls of the library at Cloudstreet when Rose gives birth in Chapter IX? What does this symbolize?

2. How does the author address the concept of faith through Oriel and Lester in Chapter X?

3. What is represented symbolically by the naked children in the wheat in Chapter X?

4. Where does Quick Lamb work in the beginning if Chapter VI? How is he injured on the job in this chapter?

5. What purpose does Rose’s relationship with Toby Raven serve in the narrative?

6. What is significant about the wedding of Rose and Quick in Chapter VIII? How does this event relate to the story’s plot?

7. What is the significance of the discussion about the black man voting in Chapter X?

8. Who is the opening narrator in Chapter VI? What is described in this brief scene?

9. How does the relationship between Dolly and Rose Pickles evolve in Chapter IX?

10. What is indicated symbolically by the letter from Ted Pickles in Chapter VIII?

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