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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the competing grocer that Oriel Lamb decides to drive out of business in Chapter V?
(a) Toby Raven.
(b) Geoffrey Birch.
(c) G.M. Clay.
(d) Wogga McBride.

2. 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?
(a) Sam Pickles'.
(b) Rose Pickles'.
(c) Dolly Pickles'.
(d) Lester Lamb’s.

3. What does Sam Pickles buy for Rose, reducing her to tears, in Chapter IV?
(a) A wooden desk.
(b) A composition book.
(c) A rag doll.
(d) A wedding gown.

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

5. Who is said to have convinced the woman who owned One Cloud Street to take in Aboriginal women in Chapter III?
(a) A Catholic nun.
(b) An Anglican priest.
(c) A local politician.
(d) A traveling salesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the talking cockatoo that Sam Pickles wins gambling in Chapter IV?

2. Dolly Pickles dreams about a man with prawns in Chapter I. When the man in Dolly’s dream puts a prawn in her mouth, it turns into what?

3. Sam daydreams about drinking beer and eating what after work in Chapter I?

4. What hill overlooks the city of Perth and forms part of Kings Park?

5. Who catches Quick Lamb and his girlfriend naked in the bush in Chapter VI?

(see the answer key)

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