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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Lamb family live before they moved into the house at Number One Cloud Street?

2. What character is the youngest child in the Lamb family?

3. Who gets married in the beginning of Chapter VII?

4. What is the name of Lester Lamb’s cousin that Quick works for in southwestern Australia in Chapter VI?

5. Who does Quick Lamb find in bed beside him when he awakens from his sickness in Chapter VII?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does the character of Lucy Wentworth represent symbolically in the story?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the establishment of “Cloudstreet,” the small grocery store developed in the ground floor of the Pickles’ and Lambs’ home at One Cloud Street. How big is the store? What items are sold here? How successful is the business when it first opens?

Essay Topic 2

How would you describe the linear structure of Cloudstreet? Is the narrative of the story related from a present or past tense? Does the narrative have nonlinear elements? Are there flashbacks? What effect do these techniques have on the reader?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss Sam Pickles’s gambling addiction and its effects on the Pickles family. Why does Sam begin gambling again in the beginning of Chapter IV? What does he believe signifies the end of his bad luck? Are Sam’s premonitions about his luck generally correct or incorrect in the narrative?

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