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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 drank ant poison.
(c) She slit her wrists.
(d) She hung herself.

2. What is the name of Rose Pickle’s uncle that owns the pub hotel where the Pickle family lives in Chapter I?
(a) Uncle James.
(b) Uncle Joel.
(c) Uncle Peter.
(d) Uncle Billy.

3. The people who frequent the grocery store at Number One Cloud Street assume that who owns the building in Chapter III?
(a) The Aborigines.
(b) The Hearst family.
(c) The Pickles family.
(d) The Lamb family.

4. What did Oriel’s father kill in order to use its bladder to treat Oriel after she was burned in a bushfire, according to the narrative in Chapter III?
(a) His only chicken.
(b) His only pig.
(c) His only cow.
(d) His favorite horse.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sam Pickles’s father is described in Chapter I as having passed along his love of what to his son?

2. How does Joel die in Chapter I?

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

4. The house at Number One Cloud Street that Sam Pickles inherits from his cousin is located in a suburb of what city?

5. What does Sam collect in his job in Chapter I?

(see the answer key)

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