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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Quick Lamb begin selling through the grocery shop in Chapter VIII?
(a) Cakes.
(b) Opium.
(c) Rice.
(d) Fish.

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

3. Lester Lamb confesses his sorrow of having given what up in Chapter VIII?
(a) His first car.
(b) His act at the Windsor Club.
(c) His first marriage.
(d) His act at the Anzac Club.

4. In Chapter IV, the grocery shop is closed for a day as Lester takes his family to what port town?
(a) Southern Cross.
(b) Fremantle.
(c) Pemberton.
(d) Subiaco.

5. Where do Rose and Quick have their wedding reception in Chapter VIII?
(a) The Returned Servicemen’s League hall.
(b) The monument in the center of
(c) An Anglican church.
(d) Cloudstreet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Quick Lamb’s favorite outdoor activity, according to the narrator in Chapter V?

2. Who is said to have convinced the woman who owned One Cloud Street to take in Aboriginal women in Chapter III?

3. Who has sex on the kitchen table in Chapter VII?

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

5. What is the name of Sam Pickles’s father in the novel?

(see the answer key)

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