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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 hill overlooks the city of Perth and forms part of Kings Park?
(a) Mount Eliza.
(b) Mount Casba.
(c) Mount Oriole.
(d) Mount Topo.

2. Where did the Pickles family live before they inherited the house at Number One Cloud Street?
(a) Southern Cross.
(b) Margaret River.
(c) Geraldton.
(d) Pemberton.

3. What is the name of Lester Lamb’s cousin that Quick works for in southwestern Australia in Chapter VI?
(a) Geoffrey Birch.
(b) Earl Blunt.
(c) Harry Lamb.
(d) Mr. Wentworth.

4. Where is the Aborigine going that Quick Lamb picks up hitchhiking in Chapter VI?
(a) Perth.
(b) Pemberton.
(c) Southern Cross.
(d) Sydney.

5. What has Dolly Pickles broken in her accident in Chapter IX?
(a) Her ribs.
(b) He leg.
(c) Her collarbone.
(d) Her arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Perth suburb that has the nearest shops to Cloud Street, across the railroad tracks?

2. What question does Sam ask the black man that he encounters on his way home from voting in Chapter X?

3. When Quick’s son is born in Chapter IX, Quick remarks that the baby is slippery like what?

4. The trial of the serial killer in Perth is driven from the front pages of the paper by what news in Chapter X?

5. Where do the Lamb and Pickles families arrange a picnic in Chapter X?

Short Essay Questions

1. What bad things begin happening after Sam Pickles has foreseen bad luck in Chapter IX?

2. What advice does the black man give to Sam in Chapter X? What does his advice symbolize?

3. What is revealed in the conversation between Lester and Oriel Lamb after the return of Quick in Chapter VII?

4. What happens to the images on the walls of the library at Cloudstreet when Rose gives birth in Chapter IX? What does this symbolize?

5. How does Toby Raven respond when his work is mistaken for another writer’s at the party in Chapter VIII? What is indicated by this response?

6. How is the glow surrounding the character of Beryl Lee interpreted in Chapter VII?

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

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

9. What is represented symbolically by the black hitchhiker that Quick Lamb meets in Chapter VI?

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

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