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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Fish talk to in the library that is described as always crying or angry in Chapter VII?
(a) The “shadow girl.”
(b) Mery Pickles.
(c) The blackman.
(d) Quick Lamb.

2. What character is the youngest child in the Lamb family?
(a) Lon Lamb.
(b) Hattie Lamb.
(c) Fish Lamb.
(d) Elaine Lamb.

3. How does Fish Lamb die in Chapter X?
(a) He drowns.
(b) He overdoses on painkillers.
(c) He is hit by a train.
(d) He is shot.

4. What is the name of Lester Lamb’s cousin that Quick works for in southwestern Australia in Chapter VI?
(a) Mr. Wentworth.
(b) Earl Blunt.
(c) Harry Lamb.
(d) Geoffrey Birch.

5. Who gets married in the beginning of Chapter VII?
(a) Merv Pickles and Beryl Lee.
(b) Elaine Lamb and Geoffrey Birch.
(c) Rose Pickles and Fish Lamb.
(d) Hattie Lamb and Geoffrey Birch.

6. Who bangs on the piano and yells at two shadows to go away at Cloudstreet in Chapter IX?
(a) Oriel Lamb.
(b) Fish Lamb.
(c) Lester Lamb.
(d) Quick Lamb.

7. Where does Beryl Lee say she is moving in Chapter VII?
(a) To a nunnery.
(b) To a pub hotel.
(c) To a brothel.
(d) To a college dorm.

8. By what name is the serial killer in Perth called in Chapter IX?
(a) The Nedlands Monster.
(b) The Night-train Stalker.
(c) The Outback Murderer.
(d) The Perth Maniac.

9. Quick and Rose find a flat and move to what suburb in Chapter IX?
(a) Fremantle.
(b) Geraldton.
(c) Mosman Park.
(d) Subiaco.

10. When Sam comes home from voting in Chapter X, he encounters a black man who tells him what?
(a) To sell Cloudstreet.
(b) That someone is about to die.
(c) That he is going to be murdered.
(d) Not to sell Cloudstreet.

11. What is Ted Pickles working as in South Australia in Chapter VIII?
(a) A bank teller.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A jockey.
(d) A kangaroo shooter.

12. Where is the Aborigine going that Quick Lamb picks up hitchhiking in Chapter VI?
(a) Southern Cross.
(b) Sydney.
(c) Perth.
(d) Pemberton.

13. Who threatens Oriel Lamb to a fistfight in Chapter X and loses?
(a) Fish Lamb.
(b) Mery Pickles.
(c) Dolly Pickles.
(d) Lon Lamb.

14. What job has Quick Lamb taken in the beginning of Chapter VI?
(a) Butcher.
(b) Undertaker.
(c) Kangaroo shooter.
(d) Policeman.

15. How many previous occupants of Number One Cloud Street died in the house prior to the Pickles family inheriting it?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lester Lamb confesses his sorrow of having given what up in Chapter VIII?

2. What is the name of the young woman that Quick Lamb begins dating in Chapter VI?

3. What does Oriel Lamb say she believes in, in Chapter VII?

4. Where do the Lamb and Pickles families arrange a picnic in Chapter X?

5. What occupation does Quick Lamb decide to enter into in Chapter IX?

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