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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 did Sam Pickles’s father do for a living?
(a) He was a bus driver.
(b) He was a taxidermist.
(c) He was a water diviner.
(d) He was a college professor.

2. The historical figure of Guy Fawkes was a member of what plot?
(a) The Gunpowder Plot.
(b) The Boston Tea Plot.
(c) The Arson Plot.
(d) The Kingsbury Plot.

3. Whose idea is it initially to open a small grocery store in an empty room in the house at Number One Cloud Street in Chapter III?
(a) Dolly Pickles'.
(b) Lester Lamb’s.
(c) Rose Pickles'.
(d) Sam Pickles'.

4. What is the name of the young man who courts Hattie Lamb in Chapter V?
(a) Beryl Lee.
(b) Toby Raven.
(c) G.M. Clay.
(d) Geoffrey Birch.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month is it when the warm weather begins in Australia, according to the narrator in Chapter V?

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

3. It is January of what year that the Lambs succeed in driving the competing grocer out of business in Chapter V?

4. What nation has surrendered, leading to the end of the war in Chapter IV?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does the luck of the Pickles family change at the end of Chapter IV?

8. Who moves into Cloudstreet after Quick Lamb has left home in Chapter V? How is this character introduced?

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

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

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