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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The doctor who examines Fish Lamb in Chapter III believes that he must be what as a result of his accident?
(a) Paralyzed.
(b) Brain damaged.
(c) Traumatized.
(d) Physically stunted.

2. At what veterans club does Lester Lamb begin performing in Chapter V?
(a) The White Horse Tavern.
(b) The Anzac Club.
(c) The Koala Club.
(d) The Powder-Room Club.

3. What is the name of the boy at school that Quick Lamb gives his lunch to in Chapter IV?
(a) G.M. Clay.
(b) Chub Pickles.
(c) Wogga McBride.
(d) Toby Raven.

4. Who beats up Dolly Pickles in Chapter V?
(a) Harry Lamb.
(b) Toby Raven.
(c) G.M. Clay.
(d) Beryl Lee.

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

6. How old is Rose Pickles when she begins to get alarmingly thin in Chapter V?
(a) 17.
(b) 16.
(c) 21.
(d) 15.

7. What Australian coin-flipping game does Sam gamble on in Chapter IV?
(a) Double diamonds.
(b) Two-up.
(c) Knucklebones.
(d) Aces high.

8. What is the name of the competing grocer that Oriel Lamb decides to drive out of business in Chapter V?
(a) Toby Raven.
(b) G.M. Clay.
(c) Wogga McBride.
(d) Geoffrey Birch.

9. How old is Fish Lamb in Chapter II?
(a) 12.
(b) 13.
(c) 11.
(d) 9.

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

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

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

13. What does the “blackfella” that Quick Lamb encounters in Chapter III try to sell him?
(a) Crayfish.
(b) Catfish.
(c) Oysters.
(d) Trimmed saplings.

14. What is Quick Lamb’s real first name?
(a) Samson.
(b) Mary.
(c) Paul.
(d) Mason.

15. Who discovers Sam Pickles sitting on the edge of the bathtub with an open razor in Chapter V?
(a) Rose Pickles.
(b) Dolly Pickles.
(c) Lester Lamb.
(d) Oriel Lamb.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is January of what year that the Lambs succeed in driving the competing grocer out of business in Chapter V?

2. Who is Sam Pickles gambling with in Chapter IV when he gets so far ahead, the man has to give him a job?

3. What is Quick Lamb’s favorite outdoor activity, according to the narrator in Chapter V?

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

5. Who becomes the chief baker and ice-cream maker at the store in Chapter III?

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