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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Sam recuperates in the hospital for how long after his work injury in Chapter I?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 1 week.

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

5. Dolly Pickles dreams about a man with prawns in Chapter I. When the man in Dolly’s dream puts a prawn in her mouth, it turns into what?
(a) A giant octopus.
(b) A snake.
(c) A severed finger.
(d) A ship's wheel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Quick Lamb’s real first name?

2. How does Sam injure himself on the job in Chapter I?

3. How old is Quick Lamb in Chapter II?

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

5. What is the name of Sam Pickles’s father in the novel?

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