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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the Lamb family fishing for in the opening of Chapter II?
(a) Crayfish.
(b) Catfish.
(c) Trout.
(d) Prawns.
2. What is the name of the boy at school that Quick Lamb gives his lunch to in Chapter IV?
(a) Toby Raven.
(b) G.M. Clay.
(c) Chub Pickles.
(d) Wogga McBride.
3. Where is Quick Lamb supposed to row the skiff to a dock at in Chapter IV?
(a) Cawley.
(b) Subiaco.
(c) Margaret River.
(d) Fermantle.
4. Who is the lonely widow that Oriel Lamb meets at the Anzac Club in Chapter V?
(a) Beryl Lee.
(b) Lucy Wentworth.
(c) G.M. Clay.
(d) Wogga McBride.
5. How does Fish Lamb become injured in Chapter II?
(a) He almost drowns.
(b) He falls down a flight of stairs
(c) He is hit by a car.
(d) He is hit by a train.
6. Rose and her brothers discover the severed foot of whom washed up on the beach in Chapter I?
(a) A Nazi soldier.
(b) An Italian soldier.
(c) An American soldier.
(d) A Japanese soldier.
7. What does the “blackfella” that Quick Lamb encounters in Chapter III try to sell him?
(a) Trimmed saplings.
(b) Catfish.
(c) Oysters.
(d) Crayfish.
8. 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?
(a) 12.
(b) 13.
(c) 11.
(d) 14.
9. How does Sam injure himself on the job in Chapter I?
(a) His hand is shot with a pellet-gun.
(b) His hand is run over by a tractor.
(c) His hand is burned by acid.
(d) His hand is caught in a winch.
10. How old is Rose Pickles when she begins to get alarmingly thin in Chapter V?
(a) 21.
(b) 17.
(c) 16.
(d) 15.
11. 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?
(a) A ship's wheel.
(b) A giant octopus.
(c) A severed finger.
(d) A snake.
12. What Australian coin-flipping game does Sam gamble on in Chapter IV?
(a) Double diamonds.
(b) Two-up.
(c) Aces high.
(d) Knucklebones.
13. Where does Sam receive a package from while he recuperates in the hospital in Chapter I?
(a) The Abrolhos Islands.
(b) The Anzac Club.
(c) Pemberton.
(d) Southern Cross.
14. 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) Playing piano.
(b) Drinking wine.
(c) Watching television.
(d) Cooking dinner.
15. 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 butcher.
(b) A union boss.
(c) A schoolteacher.
(d) An undertaker.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what town does the Pickles family live in Chapter I?
2. What war is under way in Chapter III of the novel?
3. Who beats up Dolly Pickles in Chapter V?
4. When is Guy Fawkes Night observed?
5. At what veterans club does Lester Lamb begin performing in Chapter V?
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