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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the schoolboy die that Quick Lamb gives his lunch to in Chapter IV?
(a) He is shot by his brother.
(b) He drowns in the river.
(c) He is hit by a train.
(d) He is hit by a car.

2. What month is it when the warm weather begins in Australia, according to the narrator in Chapter V?
(a) September.
(b) November.
(c) April.
(d) June.

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

4. 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.

5. Whose idea is it initially to open a small grocery store in an empty room in the house at Number One Cloud Street in Chapter III?
(a) Rose Pickles'.
(b) Lester Lamb’s.
(c) Dolly Pickles'.
(d) Sam Pickles'.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oriel Lamb describes her father’s remarriage to whom in Chapter III?

2. What is Fish Lamb’s real first name?

3. How old is Quick Lamb in Chapter II?

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

5. Sam recuperates in the hospital for how long after his work injury in Chapter I?

Short Essay Questions

1. What scene is depicted in the brief section prior to the opening of Chapter I?

2. How does Sam’s change of luck affect the outcome of events that take place in Chapter IV?

3. What theme is introduced through the character of Rose Pickles in the beginning of Chapter I?

4. What is revealed about the character of Oriel Lamb in the second half of Chapter III?

5. How do the Pickles family members differ from the Lambs in their perception of luck, as noted in Chapter III?

6. How does the author examine the themes of heredity and family in Chapter I?

7. What can the character of Rose Pickles be seen to represent symbolically in Chapter I?

8. What are Rose Pickles’s perceptions of her parents, as seen in Chapter I of the novel?

9. What is foreshadowed by the central event that occurs in Chapter II of the novel?

10. qHow does the Lamb family perceive the concept of “fate” as seen in Chapter III?

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