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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many fingers does Sam Pickles lose from his injury in Chapter I?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

2. Where does Sam receive a package from while he recuperates in the hospital in Chapter I?
(a) The Anzac Club.
(b) The Abrolhos Islands.
(c) Pemberton.
(d) Southern Cross.

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

4. What does Sam Pickles do with the money he receives as his share from the sale of the pub hotel in Chapter III?
(a) He send it to his daughter.
(b) He sends it to his mother.
(c) He loses it gambling.
(d) He invests in a car.

5. Sam Pickles’s father is described in Chapter I as having passed along his love of what to his son?
(a) Nice clothing.
(b) Politics.
(c) Fancy cars.
(d) Gambling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the old woman that previously owned the house at One Cloud Street doing when she died, according to the narrator in Chapter III?

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

3. In what year did Joel win a small fortune gambling and buy the house at One Cloud Street?

4. How old is Fish Lamb in Chapter II?

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

(see the answer key)

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