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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the pub hotel where the Pickle family lives in Chapter I?
(a) The Excelsior Hotel.
(b) The Southern Cross Hotel.
(c) The Eurhythmic Hotel.
(d) The Mosman Hotel.

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

3. What does Fish Lamb entertain himself by spinning at the dinner table in Chapter III?
(a) Dinner plates.
(b) Soup bowls.
(c) Nickles.
(d) Spoons.

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 pig.
(b) His favorite horse.
(c) His only cow.
(d) His only chicken.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Sam injure himself on the job in Chapter I?

3. What is the name of Rose Pickle’s uncle that owns the pub hotel where the Pickle family lives in Chapter I?

4. Whose idea is it initially to open a small grocery store in an empty room in the house at Number One Cloud Street in Chapter III?

5. What did Sam Pickles’s father do for a living?

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