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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the lonely widow that Oriel Lamb meets at the Anzac Club in Chapter V?
(a) Wogga McBride.
(b) G.M. Clay.
(c) Lucy Wentworth.
(d) Beryl Lee.

2. What is inside the package that Sam receives in the hospital in Chapter I?
(a) An insurance settlement.
(b) His severed fingers.
(c) A golden ring.
(d) A job offer.

3. How did one of the Aboriginal women commit suicide at One Cloud Street, according to the narrator in Chapter III?
(a) She drank ant poison.
(b) She overdosed on pain pills.
(c) She slit her wrists.
(d) She hung herself.

4. Who does Fish talk to in the library that is described as always crying or angry in Chapter VII?
(a) The “shadow girl.”
(b) Mery Pickles.
(c) The blackman.
(d) Quick Lamb.

5. The Lamb family plants a garden and raises what animals in their half of the yard in Chapter III?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Lambs.
(d) Goats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the young woman that Quick Lamb begins dating in Chapter VI?

2. Who becomes upset in Chapter IV when the Lamb and Pickles families go to burn the Guy Fawkes effigy?

3. Who comes looking for Quick Lamb when he rows the skiff upriver in Chapter IV?

4. Where did the Pickles family live before they inherited the house at Number One Cloud Street?

5. What are the names of Rose’s brothers in the novel?

(see the answer key)

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