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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what remote town do Rose and Quick drive to for their vacation in Chapter X?
(a) Margaret River.
(b) Pemberton.
(c) Southern Cross.
(d) Crawley.

3. Where does the Aborigine ask to be dropped off in Chapter VI?
(a) A prison.
(b) Cloudstreet.
(c) A Catholic Church.
(d) The city hall.

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

5. Who spends all day in Kings Park in Chapter VII?
(a) Sam Pickles.
(b) Oriel Lamb.
(c) Elaine Lamb.
(d) Rose Pickles.

6. What is the name of the young woman that Quick Lamb begins dating in Chapter VI?
(a) Elaine Lee.
(b) Dolly Pickles.
(c) Beryl Lee.
(d) Lucy Wentworth.

7. Who mentions that Lester Lamb didn’t sleep in his bed the night before in Chapter VII?
(a) Oriel Lamb.
(b) Dolly Pickles.
(c) Fish Lamb.
(d) Beryl Lee.

8. Where did the Lamb family live before they moved into the house at Number One Cloud Street?
(a) Pemberton.
(b) Southern Cross.
(c) Sydney.
(d) Margaret River.

9. Who confronts Lester Lamb in Chapter VII about the affair he’s become engaged in?
(a) Oriel Lamb.
(b) Beryl Lee.
(c) Elaine Lamb.
(d) Dolly Pickles.

10. In what year is the Perth serial killer hung in Chapter X?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1957.

11. What Australian slang term from the novel is an affectionate insult referring to someone who is unfashionable?
(a) Dag.
(b) Dill.
(c) Drongo.
(d) Galah.

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

13. What is Toby Raven’s profession when Rose meets him in Chapter VIII?
(a) He is a reporter.
(b) He is a policeman.
(c) He is a banker.
(d) He is a politician.

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

15. Who catches Quick Lamb and his girlfriend naked in the bush in Chapter VI?
(a) Geoffrey Birch.
(b) The Shire Clerk.
(c) Mr. Wentworth.
(d) The County Sheriff.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who bangs on the piano and yells at two shadows to go away at Cloudstreet in Chapter IX?

2. What do Quick Lamb and Rose Pickles share as they talk while Fish sleeps in Chapter VIII?

3. Quick and Rose find a flat and move to what suburb in Chapter IX?

4. What central theme in the novel relates closely with the Pickles family?

5. What is the name of the dog that works alongside Quick Lamb in Chapter VI?

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