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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Sam Pickles gambling with in Chapter IV when he gets so far ahead, the man has to give him a job?
(a) An undertaker.
(b) A butcher.
(c) A union boss.
(d) A schoolteacher.

2. What does Sam Pickles do with the money he receives as his share from the sale of the pub hotel in Chapter III?
(a) He send it to his daughter.
(b) He invests in a car.
(c) He loses it gambling.
(d) He sends it to his mother.

3. In what town does the Pickles family live in Chapter I?
(a) Geraldton.
(b) Margaret River.
(c) Southern Cross.
(d) Perth.

4. How does Sam injure himself on the job in Chapter I?
(a) His hand is shot with a pellet-gun.
(b) His hand is burned by acid.
(c) His hand is caught in a winch.
(d) His hand is run over by a tractor.

5. What is Lester Lamb’s occupation in Chapter II?
(a) He is a butcher.
(b) He is an optician.
(c) He is a policeman.
(d) He is an undertaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Joel win a small fortune gambling and buy the house at One Cloud Street?

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

3. Who does Quick Lamb take with him to row the skiff upriver in Chapter IV?

4. What do the members of the Lamb family spin in order to determine who will wash dishes in Chapter III?

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

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