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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lester Lamb’s occupation in Chapter II?
(a) He is an optician.
(b) He is an undertaker.
(c) He is a butcher.
(d) He is a policeman.

2. How old is Quick Lamb in the beginning of Chapter V?
(a) 16.
(b) 21.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

3. Sam Pickles’s father is described in Chapter I as having passed along his love of what to his son?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Politics.
(c) Nice clothing.
(d) Fancy cars.

4. What does Fish Lamb entertain himself by spinning at the dinner table in Chapter III?
(a) Dinner plates.
(b) Soup bowls.
(c) Nickles.
(d) Spoons.

5. It is January of what year that the Lambs succeed in driving the competing grocer out of business in Chapter V?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1962.

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

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

8. 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) Sam Pickles'.
(b) Dolly Pickles'.
(c) Lester Lamb’s.
(d) Rose Pickles'.

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

10. Who is Sam Pickles gambling with in Chapter IV when he gets so far ahead, the man has to give him a job?
(a) A union boss.
(b) A butcher.
(c) An undertaker.
(d) A schoolteacher.

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

12. What is Fish Lamb’s real first name?
(a) Samson.
(b) Andrew.
(c) Mason.
(d) Mery.

13. Where does Sam Pickles “win” a job position during a gambling game in Chapter IV?
(a) A butcher’s shop.
(b) A bank.
(c) A mint.
(d) A school.

14. How old does Quick Lamb turn on his birthday in the second half of Chapter III?
(a) 18.
(b) 15.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

15. What is the name of the young man who courts Hattie Lamb in Chapter V?
(a) Geoffrey Birch.
(b) Beryl Lee.
(c) G.M. Clay.
(d) Toby Raven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children do Lester and Oriel Lamb have in Chapter II?

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

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

4. When is Guy Fawkes Night observed?

5. Rose and her brothers discover the severed foot of whom washed up on the beach in Chapter I?

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