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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what room of the house at One Cloud Street did the old woman who previously owned it die?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The cellar.
(c) The library.
(d) The attic.

3. What is Lester Lamb’s occupation in Chapter II?
(a) He is an undertaker.
(b) He is a butcher.
(c) He is a policeman.
(d) He is an optician.

4. What does Sam collect in his job in Chapter I?
(a) Guano.
(b) Prawns.
(c) Coal.
(d) Crabs.

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 severed finger.
(b) A ship's wheel.
(c) A giant octopus.
(d) A snake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Lamb family fishing for in the opening of Chapter II?

2. Who is said to have convinced the woman who owned One Cloud Street to take in Aboriginal women in Chapter III?

3. What was the name of the horse that Joel was betting on when he won a small fortune and bought the house at One Cloud Street?

4. Rose and her brothers discover the severed foot of whom washed up on the beach in Chapter I?

5. In what town does the Pickles family live in Chapter I?

(see the answer key)

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