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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character is the youngest child in the Lamb family?
(a) Fish Lamb.
(b) Elaine Lamb.
(c) Hattie Lamb.
(d) Lon Lamb.

2. What job has Quick Lamb taken in the beginning of Chapter VI?
(a) Kangaroo shooter.
(b) Policeman.
(c) Undertaker.
(d) Butcher.

3. Quick and Oriel Lamb haul in a huge catch of what in Chapter VII?
(a) Lobsters.
(b) Catfish.
(c) Crayfish.
(d) Prawns.

4. How does Fish Lamb die in Chapter X?
(a) He overdoses on painkillers.
(b) He is hit by a train.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He drowns.

5. When Quick’s son is born in Chapter IX, Quick remarks that the baby is slippery like what?
(a) Silk.
(b) Water.
(c) Wax.
(d) Oil.

6. Who threatens Oriel Lamb to a fistfight in Chapter X and loses?
(a) Mery Pickles.
(b) Fish Lamb.
(c) Dolly Pickles.
(d) Lon Lamb.

7. What Australian slang term from the novel is an affectionate insult referring to someone who is unfashionable?
(a) Dag.
(b) Drongo.
(c) Galah.
(d) Dill.

8. What does Dolly Pickles see when she awakens hung over and enters the library in Chapter IX?
(a) A ghost hovering over the table.
(b) The rug shivering in a corner.
(c) A woman holding a hatchet.
(d) A woman hanging from the ceiling.

9. Kings Park in Perth has panoramic views of what river?
(a) The Sydney River.
(b) The Red River.
(c) The Swan River.
(d) The White River.

10. When he goes out in the fishing boat in Chapter VI, Quick Lamb sees the figure of what on the shore?
(a) A dragon.
(b) A white woman.
(c) A black man.
(d) A black woman.

11. What is Ted Pickles working as in South Australia in Chapter VIII?
(a) A bank teller.
(b) A kangaroo shooter.
(c) A jockey.
(d) A policeman.

12. Rose comes to the realization in Chapter X that she shares leadership skills in common with whom?
(a) Geoffrey Birch.
(b) Lester Lamb.
(c) Lucy Wentworth.
(d) Oriel Lamb.

13. The serial killer that terrorizes Perth in Chapter IX is based on what real-life figure?
(a) James Walter Goodman.
(b) Eric Edgar Cooke.
(c) Richard Ramirez.
(d) Peter McAnderson.

14. How has Ted Pickles died in Chapter IX?
(a) He developed cancer.
(b) He had a heart attack.
(c) He drowned in the river.
(d) He was hit by a train.

15. What season is it when Rose stops typing for Toby Raven in Chapter VIII?
(a) Summer.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Lamb and Pickles families arrange a picnic in Chapter X?

2. How does Dolly Pickles become injured in Chapter IX?

3. The boy that Quick finds drowned in the river in Chapter X turns out to be whose son?

4. By what name is the serial killer in Perth called in Chapter IX?

5. Who has sex on the kitchen table in Chapter VII?

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