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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the name of Sam Pickles’s father in the novel?
(a) Merv Pickles.
(b) James Pickles.
(c) Ted Pickles.
(d) George Pickles.

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

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

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

9. In what town does the Pickles family live in Chapter I?
(a) Margaret River.
(b) Southern Cross.
(c) Geraldton.
(d) Perth.

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

11. What does Quick Lamb begin clipping from the newspaper and hanging on his wall in Chapter IV?
(a) Wedding announcements.
(b) Sad stories.
(c) Reviews.
(d) Job postings.

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

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

14. 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.

15. Which of the Lamb daughters is noted as being a remarkably good marbles player?
(a) Red Lamb.
(b) Hattie Lamb.
(c) Oriel Lamb.
(d) Elaine Lamb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the pub hotel where the Pickle family lives in Chapter I?

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

3. How old does Quick Lamb turn on his birthday in the second half of Chapter III?

4. What does Sam collect in his job in Chapter I?

5. In Joel’s will, it states that the house at One Cloud Street is left to Sam Pickles with what provision?

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