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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of Rose’s brothers in the novel?
(a) Ted and Chub Pickles.
(b) Lon and Merv Pickles.
(c) Geoffrey and Harry Pickles.
(d) Fish and Lester Pickles.

2. Who comes looking for Quick Lamb when he rows the skiff upriver in Chapter IV?
(a) Dolly Pickles.
(b) Oriel Lamb.
(c) Lester Lamb.
(d) Sam Pickles.

3. Oriel Lamb describes her father’s remarriage to whom in Chapter III?
(a) A young teacher.
(b) An Aborigine woman.
(c) An elderly widow.
(d) A soothsayer.

4. Who becomes upset in Chapter IV when the Lamb and Pickles families go to burn the Guy Fawkes effigy?
(a) Fish Lamb.
(b) Rose Pickles.
(c) Quick Lamb.
(d) Dolly Pickles.

5. In what room of the house at One Cloud Street did the old woman who previously owned it die?
(a) The library.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The attic.
(d) The cellar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the Lamb daughters is noted as being a remarkably good marbles player?

3. How many fingers does Sam Pickles lose from his injury in Chapter I?

4. In Joel’s will, it states that the house at One Cloud Street is left to Sam Pickles with what provision?

5. What did Oriel’s father kill in order to use its bladder to treat Oriel after she was burned in a bushfire, according to the narrative in Chapter III?

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