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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Rose Pickles when she no longer scours the pubs looking for her mother because she won’t brave the drunks in Chapter V?
(a) 13.
(b) 12.
(c) 11.
(d) 14.

2. What Australian slang term from the novel is an affectionate insult referring to someone who is unfashionable?
(a) Galah.
(b) Dag.
(c) Drongo.
(d) Dill.

3. Where do Rose and Quick have their wedding reception in Chapter VIII?
(a) The Returned Servicemen’s League hall.
(b) Cloudstreet.
(c) An Anglican church.
(d) The monument in the center of

4. In Chapter V, Quick Lamb announces that he is leaving home to do what?
(a) “Find himself.”
(b) “Fight for freedom.”
(c) “Go bush.”
(d) “Join the military.”

5. At what veterans club does Lester Lamb begin performing in Chapter V?
(a) The Powder-Room Club.
(b) The Koala Club.
(c) The Anzac Club.
(d) The White Horse Tavern.

Short Answer Questions

1. What war is under way in Chapter III of the novel?

2. The Lamb family plants a garden and raises what animals in their half of the yard in Chapter III?

3. The character of Toby Raven appears to Rose like what, in Chapter VIII?

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

5. How do the Lamb daughters feel about their new life in the city in Chapter III?

(see the answer key)

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