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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 Ted Pickles working as in South Australia in Chapter VIII?
(a) A jockey.
(b) A bank teller.
(c) A kangaroo shooter.
(d) A policeman.

2. What job has Quick Lamb taken in the beginning of Chapter VI?
(a) Kangaroo shooter.
(b) Butcher.
(c) Undertaker.
(d) Policeman.

3. Who gets married in the beginning of Chapter VII?
(a) Rose Pickles and Fish Lamb.
(b) Hattie Lamb and Geoffrey Birch.
(c) Merv Pickles and Beryl Lee.
(d) Elaine Lamb and Geoffrey Birch.

4. Where is the character of Geoffrey Birch from?
(a) Crawley.
(b) Pemberton.
(c) Margaret River.
(d) Southern Cross.

5. Quick and Oriel Lamb haul in a huge catch of what in Chapter VII?
(a) Prawns.
(b) Lobsters.
(c) Catfish.
(d) Crayfish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dolly Pickles see when she awakens hung over and enters the library in Chapter IX?

2. Who mentions that Lester Lamb didn’t sleep in his bed the night before in Chapter VII?

3. How long do Rose and Quick date before they wed in Chapter VIII?

4. To what remote town do Rose and Quick drive to for their vacation in Chapter X?

5. Who dismantles the tent in the backyard in the end of Chapter X?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about the wedding of Rose and Quick in Chapter VIII? How does this event relate to the story’s plot?

2. What is foreshadowed by the marriage of Hattie Lamb in Chapter VII?

3. What themes and/or motifs are the central focus in Chapter VI?

4. What is foreshadowed by Rose’s realization about leadership in Chapter X?

5. How does the relationship between Dolly and Rose Pickles evolve in Chapter IX?

6. What is represented symbolically by the naked children in the wheat in Chapter X?

7. What does Quick dream of when he is knocked unconscious in Chapter VI?

8. What is seen on the walls of the library at Cloudstreet in Chapter IX? What do these images represent?

9. Where does Quick Lamb work in the beginning if Chapter VI? How is he injured on the job in this chapter?

10. What does the shadow girl that Fish speaks with represent symbolically in Chapter VII?

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