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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the department store where Rose Pickles begins working at as a switchboard operator in Chapter V?
(a) Anderson's.
(b) Macys.
(c) Bairds.
(d) Lawrence's.

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

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

4. What is the name of Rose Pickle’s uncle that owns the pub hotel where the Pickle family lives in Chapter I?
(a) Uncle Joel.
(b) Uncle Billy.
(c) Uncle James.
(d) Uncle Peter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Who is the lonely widow that Oriel Lamb meets at the Anzac Club in Chapter V?
(a) Lucy Wentworth.
(b) Beryl Lee.
(c) G.M. Clay.
(d) Wogga McBride.

12. What is Fish Lamb’s real first name?
(a) Mason.
(b) Andrew.
(c) Mery.
(d) Samson.

13. Where is Quick Lamb supposed to row the skiff to a dock at in Chapter IV?
(a) Margaret River.
(b) Fermantle.
(c) Subiaco.
(d) Cawley.

14. It is New Year’s Day of what year when Oriel sets up a tent in the backyard in Chapter IV?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1936.

15. What Australian coin-flipping game does Sam gamble on in Chapter IV?
(a) Knucklebones.
(b) Aces high.
(c) Double diamonds.
(d) Two-up.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sam injure himself on the job in Chapter I?

2. Sam recuperates in the hospital for how long after his work injury in Chapter I?

3. It is January of what year that the Lambs succeed in driving the competing grocer out of business in Chapter V?

4. 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?

5. What is the name of the horse that Sam Pickles starts betting on in Chapter IV?

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