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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 hung herself.
(c) She overdosed on pain pills.
(d) She slit her wrists.

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

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 open a store there.
(b) That he not sell it for 20 years.
(c) That he leave it to his children when he dies.
(d) That he sell it immediately.

5. Rose and her brothers discover the severed foot of whom washed up on the beach in Chapter I?
(a) A Japanese soldier.
(b) A Nazi soldier.
(c) An American soldier.
(d) An Italian soldier.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Lester Lamb’s occupation in Chapter II?

3. What is Fish Lamb’s real first name?

4. In what room of the house at One Cloud Street did the old woman who previously owned it die?

5. What is the name of the pub hotel where the Pickle family lives in Chapter I?

(see the answer key)

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