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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Sam Pickles “win” a job position during a gambling game in Chapter IV?
(a) A school.
(b) A butcher’s shop.
(c) A bank.
(d) A mint.

2. Who discovers Sam Pickles sitting on the edge of the bathtub with an open razor in Chapter V?
(a) Rose Pickles.
(b) Oriel Lamb.
(c) Dolly Pickles.
(d) Lester Lamb.

3. How did one of the Aboriginal women commit suicide at One Cloud Street, according to the narrator in Chapter III?
(a) She overdosed on pain pills.
(b) She hung herself.
(c) She slit her wrists.
(d) She drank ant poison.

4. What is the name of the boy at school that Quick Lamb gives his lunch to in Chapter IV?
(a) Toby Raven.
(b) Wogga McBride.
(c) Chub Pickles.
(d) G.M. Clay.

5. Who comes looking for Quick Lamb when he rows the skiff upriver in Chapter IV?
(a) Dolly Pickles.
(b) Lester Lamb.
(c) Oriel Lamb.
(d) Sam Pickles.

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

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

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

9. What is inside the package that Sam receives in the hospital in Chapter I?
(a) A golden ring.
(b) A job offer.
(c) An insurance settlement.
(d) His severed fingers.

10. How many children do Lester and Oriel Lamb have in Chapter II?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

12. Who is said to run the grocery store like a drill sergeant, keeping a close eye on supply and demand, in Chapter III?
(a) Oriel Lamb.
(b) Sam Pickles.
(c) Dolly Pickles.
(d) Rose Pickles.

13. What are the names of Rose’s brothers in the novel?
(a) Ted and Chub Pickles.
(b) Lon and Merv Pickles.
(c) Geoffrey and Harry Pickles.
(d) Fish and Lester Pickles.

14. Sam recuperates in the hospital for how long after his work injury in Chapter I?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 4 days.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Rose’s brothers described in Chapter V?

2. What do the members of the Lamb family spin in order to determine who will wash dishes in Chapter III?

3. In Chapter V, Quick Lamb announces that he is leaving home to do what?

4. Where does Sam receive a package from while he recuperates in the hospital in Chapter I?

5. In what year did Joel win a small fortune gambling and buy the house at One Cloud Street?

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