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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The house at Number One Cloud Street that Sam Pickles inherits from his cousin is located in a suburb of what city?
(a) Fremantle.
(b) Perth.
(c) Canberra.
(d) Sydney.

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

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

5. What does the “blackfella” that Quick Lamb encounters in Chapter III try to sell him?
(a) Oysters.
(b) Catfish.
(c) Crayfish.
(d) Trimmed saplings.

6. 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 invests in a car.
(b) He send it to his daughter.
(c) He sends it to his mother.
(d) He loses it gambling.

7. Who does Quick Lamb take with him to row the skiff upriver in Chapter IV?
(a) Fish Lamb.
(b) Oriel Lamb.
(c) Ted Lamb.
(d) Lon Lamb.

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

9. Who does Rose daydream about running away with in Chapter V?
(a) Fish Lamb.
(b) Toby Raven.
(c) Quick Lamb.
(d) Lester Lamb.

10. What is the Lamb family fishing for in the opening of Chapter II?
(a) Prawns.
(b) Crayfish.
(c) Catfish.
(d) Trout.

11. 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) Rose Pickles'.
(b) Lester Lamb’s.
(c) Dolly Pickles'.
(d) Sam Pickles'.

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

13. What month is it when the warm weather begins in Australia, according to the narrator in Chapter V?
(a) June.
(b) September.
(c) November.
(d) April.

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

15. Who becomes the chief baker and ice-cream maker at the store in Chapter III?
(a) Dolly Pickles.
(b) Lester Lamb.
(c) Sam Pickles.
(d) Oriel Lamb.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Rose Pickles when she begins to get alarmingly thin in Chapter V?

2. How does the schoolboy die that Quick Lamb gives his lunch to in Chapter IV?

3. Who beats up Dolly Pickles in Chapter V?

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

5. Which of the Lamb daughters is a short-haired tomboy that does not want to marry?

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