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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Quick’s son is born in Chapter IX, Quick remarks that the baby is slippery like what?
(a) Silk.
(b) Wax.
(c) Oil.
(d) Water.

2. Who dismantles the tent in the backyard in the end of Chapter X?
(a) Ted Pickles and Elaine Lamb.
(b) Dolly Pickles and Oriel Lamb.
(c) Quick Lamb and Fish Lamb.
(d) Lester Lamb and Sam Pickles.

3. What is the name of the young woman that Lon Lamb marries in Chapter IX?
(a) Lucy Wentworth.
(b) Beryl Lee.
(c) Wogga McBride.
(d) Pansy Mullet.

4. Who discovers Quick Lamb after his injury in Chapter VI?
(a) Mr. Wentworth.
(b) Mery Pickles.
(c) Sam Pickles.
(d) Oriel Lamb.

5. Where is the character of Geoffrey Birch from?
(a) Crawley.
(b) Southern Cross.
(c) Margaret River.
(d) Pemberton.

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

7. Rose Pickles learns from her coworkers about how to get dates by flirting on the phone in Chapter VIII. Where do the women tell their prospective dates to meet them?
(a) Outside the post office.
(b) Outside the soda shop.
(c) At a French café.
(d) Outside the library.

8. How does Dolly Pickles become injured in Chapter IX?
(a) She falls down a flight of stairs.
(b) She is hit by a car.
(c) She almost drowns in the river.
(d) She is hit by a train.

9. Who helps deliver Rose’s baby in Chapter IX?
(a) Don Pickles.
(b) Dolly Pickles.
(c) Sam Pickles.
(d) Oriel Lamb.

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

11. Where did the Pickles family live before they inherited the house at Number One Cloud Street?
(a) Margaret River.
(b) Geraldton.
(c) Southern Cross.
(d) Pemberton.

12. At a party in Chapter VIII, Toby Raven starts talking about a grotesque comedy he is working on, concerning a famous writer and what?
(a) A waitress.
(b) A model.
(c) An acress.
(d) A shop girl.

13. Where do the Lamb and Pickles families arrange a picnic in Chapter X?
(a) On the mountain.
(b) By the river.
(c) In Subiaco.
(d) At Kings Park.

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

15. What is the name of the baby girl Lon’s bride gives birth to in Chapter X?
(a) Merrileen-Gay Pickles.
(b) Oriel Sarah Pickles.
(c) Hattie Michelle Pickles.
(d) Dolly Elizabeth Pickles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who threatens Oriel Lamb to a fistfight in Chapter X and loses?

2. What is the name of the Perth suburb that has the nearest shops to Cloud Street, across the railroad tracks?

3. It is the last day of what decade when Rose and Quick find a flat in Chapter IX?

4. Who gets married in the beginning of Chapter VII?

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

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