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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Quick Lamb’s real first name?
(a) Mason.
(b) Mary.
(c) Paul.
(d) Samson.

2. Oriel Lamb describes her father’s remarriage to whom in Chapter III?
(a) An elderly widow.
(b) A soothsayer.
(c) A young teacher.
(d) An Aborigine woman.

3. What is the name of the horse that Sam Pickles starts betting on in Chapter IV?
(a) Eurhythmic.
(b) Blackbutt.
(c) Samson.
(d) White Glory.

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

5. Where does Sam receive a package from while he recuperates in the hospital in Chapter I?
(a) The Anzac Club.
(b) Southern Cross.
(c) Pemberton.
(d) The Abrolhos Islands.

Short Answer 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?

2. How many children do Lester and Oriel Lamb have in Chapter II?

3. What was the name of the horse that Joel was betting on when he won a small fortune and bought the house at One Cloud Street?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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