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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. What is Quick Lamb’s favorite outdoor activity, according to the narrator in Chapter V?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Horseback riding.
(d) Fishing.

2. It is New Year’s Day of what year when Oriel sets up a tent in the backyard in Chapter IV?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1949.

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

4. Who becomes upset in Chapter IV when the Lamb and Pickles families go to burn the Guy Fawkes effigy?
(a) Fish Lamb.
(b) Dolly Pickles.
(c) Quick Lamb.
(d) Rose Pickles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rose daydream about running away with in Chapter V?

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

3. How does Fish Lamb become injured in Chapter II?

4. Who discovers Sam Pickles sitting on the edge of the bathtub with an open razor in Chapter V?

5. What is the name of the pub hotel where the Pickle family lives in Chapter I?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Quick Lamb and Rose Pickles described in the beginning of Chapter V? How old are they at this point?

2. How is the concept of “luck” perceived by the members of the Pickles family? Where did this perception of luck derive from?

3. How are fates of the Lamb and Pickles families compared to one another in Chapter II?

4. What is the central event that dominates Chapter II? Why is this event important in the story?

5. How does the Lamb family perceive the concept of “luck,” as seen in the second half of Chapter III? What symbolizes this perception?

6. How is Fish’s mental state transformed in Chapter V? What has led to this transformation?

7. What is foreshadowed through the character of the black man that appears in Chapter III?

8. What is significant about the author’s depiction of the house on Cloud Street in Chapter III?

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

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

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