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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 the name of the pub hotel where the Pickle family lives in Chapter I?
(a) The Eurhythmic Hotel.
(b) The Southern Cross Hotel.
(c) The Mosman Hotel.
(d) The Excelsior Hotel.

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

3. Sam Pickles’s father is described in Chapter I as having passed along his love of what to his son?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Nice clothing.
(c) Fancy cars.
(d) Politics.

4. What are the names of Rose’s brothers in the novel?
(a) Fish and Lester Pickles.
(b) Geoffrey and Harry Pickles.
(c) Ted and Chub Pickles.
(d) Lon and Merv Pickles.

5. What is the name of the competing grocer that Oriel Lamb decides to drive out of business in Chapter V?
(a) G.M. Clay.
(b) Geoffrey Birch.
(c) Toby Raven.
(d) Wogga McBride.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children do Lester and Oriel Lamb have in Chapter II?

2. What does Sam Pickles do with the money he receives as his share from the sale of the pub hotel in Chapter III?

3. What does Sam Pickles buy for Rose, reducing her to tears, in Chapter IV?

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

5. In what room of the house at One Cloud Street did the old woman who previously owned it die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are the characters of Lester and Oriel Lamb introduced in Chapter II? What is their family doing when they are introduced?

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

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

5. What is noteworthy about the narratives of Quick and Fish Lamb in Chapter IV?

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

7. How do Sam’s actions in Chapter III propel the plot of the narrative forward?

8. What is author Tim Winton’s focus in Chapter V? How does this chapter serve the novel?

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

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

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