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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) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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

3. 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 giant octopus.
(c) A ship's wheel.
(d) A snake.

4. Sam daydreams about drinking beer and eating what after work in Chapter I?
(a) Prawns.
(b) Catfish.
(c) Squid.
(d) Crayfish.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Sam Pickles do with the money he receives as his share from the sale of the pub hotel in Chapter III?

5. Sam recuperates in the hospital for how long after his work injury in Chapter I?

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