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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

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) 14.
(b) 11.
(c) 12.
(d) 13.

2. Lester Lamb confesses his sorrow of having given what up in Chapter VIII?
(a) His act at the Anzac Club.
(b) His first car.
(c) His act at the Windsor Club.
(d) His first marriage.

3. What do the members of the Lamb family spin in order to determine who will wash dishes in Chapter III?
(a) An Indian arrowhead.
(b) A bottle.
(c) A butter knife.
(d) A pencil.

4. How did one of the Aboriginal women commit suicide at One Cloud Street, according to the narrator in Chapter III?
(a) She overdosed on pain pills.
(b) She hung herself.
(c) She slit her wrists.
(d) She drank ant poison.

5. What is Toby Raven’s profession when Rose meets him in Chapter VIII?
(a) He is a policeman.
(b) He is a reporter.
(c) He is a banker.
(d) He is a politician.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Fish Lamb become injured in Chapter II?

2. What is the name of Rose Pickle’s uncle that owns the pub hotel where the Pickle family lives in Chapter I?

3. What is the name of the boy at school that Quick Lamb gives his lunch to in Chapter IV?

4. What is Quick Lamb’s real first name?

5. Where in the house do Rose and Quick make love in Chapter VIII?

(see the answer key)

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