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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. Who catches Quick Lamb and his girlfriend naked in the bush in Chapter VI?
(a) The County Sheriff.
(b) The Shire Clerk.
(c) Mr. Wentworth.
(d) Geoffrey Birch.

2. Sam realizes in Chapter X that he will soon have had Cloudstreet for how many years?
(a) 30.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

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

4. Where does Beryl Lee say she is moving in Chapter VII?
(a) To a college dorm.
(b) To a brothel.
(c) To a pub hotel.
(d) To a nunnery.

5. What occupation does Quick Lamb decide to enter into in Chapter IX?
(a) He becomes a baker.
(b) He becomes a kangaroo shooter.
(c) He becomes a policeman.
(d) He becomes a butcher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovers Quick Lamb after his injury in Chapter VI?

2. Where do Rose and Quick have their wedding reception in Chapter VIII?

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

4. Dolly Pickles confesses to Rose in Chapter IX that her elder sister was what?

5. What season is it when Rose stops typing for Toby Raven in Chapter VIII?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is indicated symbolically by the letter from Ted Pickles in Chapter VIII?

3. Who is the opening narrator in Chapter VI? What is described in this brief scene?

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

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

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

7. How is Rose’s position in work and society described in the beginning of Chapter VIII?

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

9. What purpose does Rose’s relationship with Toby Raven serve in the narrative?

10. 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?

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