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

2. What was the name of the horse that Joel was betting on when he won a small fortune and bought the house at One Cloud Street?
(a) White Horse.
(b) Eurhythmic.
(c) Blackbutt.
(d) Ranger.

3. What is the name of the boy at school that Quick Lamb gives his lunch to in Chapter IV?
(a) Toby Raven.
(b) Chub Pickles.
(c) Wogga McBride.
(d) G.M. Clay.

4. What does the “blackfella” that Quick Lamb encounters in Chapter III try to sell him?
(a) Oysters.
(b) Trimmed saplings.
(c) Catfish.
(d) Crayfish.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fish Lamb seems to recognize everyone in his family except for whom in Chapter III?

2. What is the name of the competing grocer that Oriel Lamb decides to drive out of business in Chapter V?

3. What does Sam collect in his job in Chapter I?

4. Who is the lonely widow that Oriel Lamb meets at the Anzac Club in Chapter V?

5. What war is under way in Chapter III of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How would you characterize the language style of Cloudstreet?

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

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

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

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

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

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