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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Lamb family plants a garden and raises what animals in their half of the yard in Chapter III?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Goats.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Lambs.

2. How old is Quick Lamb in the beginning of Chapter V?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 21.

3. What half-brother of Oriel Lamb’s was killed in Palestine in World War I?
(a) Ted.
(b) Bluey.
(c) James.
(d) Henry.

4. The historical figure of Guy Fawkes was a member of what plot?
(a) The Kingsbury Plot.
(b) The Arson Plot.
(c) The Boston Tea Plot.
(d) The Gunpowder Plot.

5. How are Rose’s brothers described in Chapter V?
(a) Overly ambitious.
(b) Excellent students.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Hard working

6. What does Fish Lamb entertain himself by spinning at the dinner table in Chapter III?
(a) Soup bowls.
(b) Spoons.
(c) Dinner plates.
(d) Nickles.

7. 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?
(a) Eurhythmic.
(b) Blackbutt.
(c) White Horse.
(d) Ranger.

8. How does Joel die in Chapter I?
(a) He develops tuberculosis.
(b) He has a stroke.
(c) He has a heart attack.
(d) He is hit by a train.

9. What does Sam collect in his job in Chapter I?
(a) Crabs.
(b) Prawns.
(c) Coal.
(d) Guano.

10. How old is Rose Pickles when she begins to get alarmingly thin in Chapter V?
(a) 21.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 16.

11. How do the Lamb daughters feel about their new life in the city in Chapter III?
(a) They regret it.
(b) They miss it.
(c) They love it.
(d) They hate it.

12. Sam daydreams about drinking beer and eating what after work in Chapter I?
(a) Catfish.
(b) Squid.
(c) Prawns.
(d) Crayfish.

13. Rose and her brothers discover the severed foot of whom washed up on the beach in Chapter I?
(a) A Nazi soldier.
(b) A Japanese soldier.
(c) An American soldier.
(d) An Italian soldier.

14. Who becomes upset in Chapter IV when the Lamb and Pickles families go to burn the Guy Fawkes effigy?
(a) Quick Lamb.
(b) Dolly Pickles.
(c) Fish Lamb.
(d) Rose Pickles.

15. In Chapter V, Quick Lamb announces that he is leaving home to do what?
(a) “Go bush.”
(b) “Join the military.”
(c) “Find himself.”
(d) “Fight for freedom.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the competing grocer that Oriel Lamb decides to drive out of business in Chapter V?

2. What did Sam Pickles’s father do for a living?

3. Who is the lonely widow that Oriel Lamb meets at the Anzac Club in Chapter V?

4. What animal belonging to the Lamb family is said to talk in tongues in Chapter V?

5. How did one of the Aboriginal women commit suicide at One Cloud Street, according to the narrator in Chapter III?

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