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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 inside the package that Sam receives in the hospital in Chapter I?
(a) A golden ring.
(b) His severed fingers.
(c) An insurance settlement.
(d) A job offer.

2. How old is Quick Lamb in Chapter II?
(a) 8.
(b) 13.
(c) 11.
(d) 15.

3. What are the names of Rose’s brothers in the novel?
(a) Ted and Chub Pickles.
(b) Lon and Merv Pickles.
(c) Geoffrey and Harry Pickles.
(d) Fish and Lester Pickles.

4. 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 Lamb family.
(c) The Pickles family.
(d) The Hearst family.

5. How old is Fish Lamb in Chapter II?
(a) 11.
(b) 13.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fish Lamb entertain himself by spinning at the dinner table in Chapter III?

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

3. What half-brother of Oriel Lamb’s was killed in Palestine in World War I?

4. Who becomes the chief baker and ice-cream maker at the store in Chapter III?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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