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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the old woman that previously owned the house at One Cloud Street doing when she died, according to the narrator in Chapter III?
(a) Drinking wine.
(b) Cooking dinner.
(c) Playing piano.
(d) Watching television.

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

3. How does the schoolboy die that Quick Lamb gives his lunch to in Chapter IV?
(a) He is hit by a train.
(b) He drowns in the river.
(c) He is hit by a car.
(d) He is shot by his brother.

4. Whose idea is it initially to open a small grocery store in an empty room in the house at Number One Cloud Street in Chapter III?
(a) Lester Lamb’s.
(b) Rose Pickles'.
(c) Sam Pickles'.
(d) Dolly Pickles'.

5. Fish Lamb seems to recognize everyone in his family except for whom in Chapter III?
(a) Lon Lamb.
(b) Oriel Lamb.
(c) Hattie Lamb.
(d) Lester Lamb.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what town does the Pickles family live in Chapter I?

2. When is Guy Fawkes Night observed?

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

4. 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?

5. What is the name of the talking cockatoo that Sam Pickles wins gambling in Chapter IV?

(see the answer key)

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