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

2. What animal belonging to the Lamb family is said to talk in tongues in Chapter V?
(a) A pig.
(b) A parrot.
(c) A horse.
(d) A goldfish.

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

4. Oriel Lamb describes her father’s remarriage to whom in Chapter III?
(a) A young teacher.
(b) An elderly widow.
(c) An Aborigine woman.
(d) A soothsayer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Quick Lamb in Chapter II?

2. Which of the Lamb daughters is noted as being a remarkably good marbles player?

3. What is Lester Lamb’s occupation in Chapter II?

4. What half-brother of Oriel Lamb’s was killed in Palestine in World War I?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What events occur in January of 1951, according to the narrator in Chapter V?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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