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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old does Quick Lamb turn on his birthday in the second half of Chapter III?
(a) 15.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) 9.

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

3. What nation has surrendered, leading to the end of the war in Chapter IV?
(a) Japan.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Poland.

4. What does Sam Pickles buy for Rose, reducing her to tears, in Chapter IV?
(a) A rag doll.
(b) A composition book.
(c) A wooden desk.
(d) A wedding gown.

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

6. 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?
(a) A severed finger.
(b) A snake.
(c) A ship's wheel.
(d) A giant octopus.

7. Where does Sam receive a package from while he recuperates in the hospital in Chapter I?
(a) Pemberton.
(b) The Abrolhos Islands.
(c) The Anzac Club.
(d) Southern Cross.

8. 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 sends it to his mother.
(d) He send it to his daughter.

9. How old is Rose Pickles when she no longer scours the pubs looking for her mother because she won’t brave the drunks in Chapter V?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 13.
(d) 11.

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

11. The doctor who examines Fish Lamb in Chapter III believes that he must be what as a result of his accident?
(a) Brain damaged.
(b) Paralyzed.
(c) Physically stunted.
(d) Traumatized.

12. How does Sam injure himself on the job in Chapter I?
(a) His hand is caught in a winch.
(b) His hand is shot with a pellet-gun.
(c) His hand is burned by acid.
(d) His hand is run over by a tractor.

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

14. Who beats up Dolly Pickles in Chapter V?
(a) Toby Raven.
(b) Harry Lamb.
(c) G.M. Clay.
(d) Beryl Lee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of Rose’s brothers in the novel?

2. 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?

3. The Lamb family plants a garden and raises what animals in their half of the yard in Chapter III?

4. It is New Year’s Day of what year when Oriel sets up a tent in the backyard in Chapter IV?

5. Sam Pickles’s father is described in Chapter I as having passed along his love of what to his son?

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