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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The people who frequent the grocery store at Number One Cloud Street assume that who owns the building in Chapter III?
(a) The Aborigines.
(b) The Hearst family.
(c) The Pickles family.
(d) The Lamb family.

2. What is inside the package that Sam receives in the hospital in Chapter I?
(a) An insurance settlement.
(b) A golden ring.
(c) His severed fingers.
(d) A job offer.

3. How many fingers does Sam Pickles lose from his injury in Chapter I?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

4. The house at Number One Cloud Street that Sam Pickles inherits from his cousin is located in a suburb of what city?
(a) Perth.
(b) Fremantle.
(c) Sydney.
(d) Canberra.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is said to run the grocery store like a drill sergeant, keeping a close eye on supply and demand, in Chapter III?

2. What member of the Pickles family is described in Chapter I as “a damned good-looking woman”?

3. Sam daydreams about drinking beer and eating what after work in Chapter I?

4. Oriel Lamb describes her father’s remarriage to whom in Chapter III?

5. Who is said to have convinced the woman who owned One Cloud Street to take in Aboriginal women in Chapter III?

(see the answer key)

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