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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 horse that Sam Pickles starts betting on in Chapter IV?
(a) White Glory.
(b) Samson.
(c) Eurhythmic.
(d) Blackbutt.

2. In Chapter V, Quick Lamb announces that he is leaving home to do what?
(a) “Find himself.”
(b) “Fight for freedom.”
(c) “Join the military.”
(d) “Go bush.”

3. What is the name of Sam Pickles’s father in the novel?
(a) Ted Pickles.
(b) Merv Pickles.
(c) James Pickles.
(d) George Pickles.

4. It is January of what year that the Lambs succeed in driving the competing grocer out of business in Chapter V?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1951.

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 Mosman Hotel.
(d) The Southern Cross Hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what veterans club does Lester Lamb begin performing in Chapter V?

2. What member of the Pickles family is described in Chapter I as “a damned good-looking woman”?

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

4. In what year did Joel win a small fortune gambling and buy the house at One Cloud Street?

5. What kind of act does Lester Lamb perform at the veterans club in Chapter V?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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