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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. In what room of the house at One Cloud Street did the old woman who previously owned it die?
(a) The cellar.
(b) The attic.
(c) The library.
(d) The kitchen.

2. What member of the Pickles family is described in Chapter I as “a damned good-looking woman”?
(a) Elaine Pickles.
(b) Hattie Pickles.
(c) Rose Pickles.
(d) Dolly Pickles.

3. Sam daydreams about drinking beer and eating what after work in Chapter I?
(a) Squid.
(b) Crayfish.
(c) Prawns.
(d) Catfish.

4. What does Sam collect in his job in Chapter I?
(a) Prawns.
(b) Guano.
(c) Crabs.
(d) Coal.

5. Rose and her brothers discover the severed foot of whom washed up on the beach in Chapter I?
(a) A Japanese soldier.
(b) A Nazi soldier.
(c) An Italian soldier.
(d) An American soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Rose Pickles when she no longer scours the pubs looking for her mother because she won’t brave the drunks in Chapter V?

2. What is the name of Sam Pickles’s father in the novel?

3. The Lamb family plants a garden and raises what animals in their half of the yard in Chapter III?

4. In Chapter IV, the grocery shop is closed for a day as Lester takes his family to what port town?

5. What does Fish Lamb entertain himself by spinning at the dinner table in Chapter III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is Fish’s mental capacity changed after his accident?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What question is raised by Sam’s intuition about his luck changing in the beginning of Chapter IV?

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