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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What member of the Pickles family is described in Chapter I as “a damned good-looking woman”?
(a) Rose Pickles.
(b) Dolly Pickles.
(c) Elaine Pickles.
(d) Hattie Pickles.

2. How does Sam injure himself on the job in Chapter I?
(a) His hand is burned by acid.
(b) His hand is shot with a pellet-gun.
(c) His hand is caught in a winch.
(d) His hand is run over by a tractor.

3. What did Sam Pickles’s father do for a living?
(a) He was a college professor.
(b) He was a bus driver.
(c) He was a water diviner.
(d) He was a taxidermist.

4. Who confronts Lester Lamb in Chapter VII about the affair he’s become engaged in?
(a) Beryl Lee.
(b) Elaine Lamb.
(c) Dolly Pickles.
(d) Oriel Lamb.

5. In Chapter IV, the grocery shop is closed for a day as Lester takes his family to what port town?
(a) Fremantle.
(b) Southern Cross.
(c) Pemberton.
(d) Subiaco.

Short Answer Questions

1. What body part of Sam’s tingles when bad luck seems to be approaching in the novel?

2. The historical figure of Guy Fawkes was a member of what plot?

3. What does Sam Pickles buy for Rose, reducing her to tears, in Chapter IV?

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

5. Dolly Pickles dreams about a man with prawns in Chapter I. When the man in Dolly’s dream puts a prawn in her mouth, it turns into what?

(see the answer key)

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