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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) Hattie Lamb.
(c) Elaine Lamb.
(d) Lon Lamb.

2. What does Oriel Lamb dream about in Chapter IX?
(a) Drowning in a river.
(b) Floating in the ocean.
(c) Kangaroos.
(d) Bushfires.

3. Where is the Aborigine going that Quick Lamb picks up hitchhiking in Chapter VI?
(a) Sydney.
(b) Pemberton.
(c) Perth.
(d) Southern Cross.

4. For how long do the Lambs nurse Quick back to health after he is returned to Cloudstreet in Chapter VI?
(a) 7 days.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 3 weeks.

5. Who does Fish talk to in the library that is described as always crying or angry in Chapter VII?
(a) The “shadow girl.”
(b) The blackman.
(c) Quick Lamb.
(d) Mery Pickles.

6. At a party in Chapter VIII, Toby Raven starts talking about a grotesque comedy he is working on, concerning a famous writer and what?
(a) A waitress.
(b) A shop girl.
(c) A model.
(d) An acress.

7. What is the name of the Perth suburb that has the nearest shops to Cloud Street, across the railroad tracks?
(a) Margaret River.
(b) Subiaco.
(c) Crawley.
(d) Mosman Park.

8. Quick and Rose find a flat and move to what suburb in Chapter IX?
(a) Mosman Park.
(b) Geraldton.
(c) Subiaco.
(d) Fremantle.

9. What is the name of the baby girl Lon’s bride gives birth to in Chapter X?
(a) Merrileen-Gay Pickles.
(b) Oriel Sarah Pickles.
(c) Dolly Elizabeth Pickles.
(d) Hattie Michelle Pickles.

10. What occupation does Quick Lamb decide to enter into in Chapter IX?
(a) He becomes a policeman.
(b) He becomes a baker.
(c) He becomes a butcher.
(d) He becomes a kangaroo shooter.

11. By what name is the serial killer in Perth called in Chapter IX?
(a) The Nedlands Monster.
(b) The Outback Murderer.
(c) The Night-train Stalker.
(d) The Perth Maniac.

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

13. Who bangs on the piano and yells at two shadows to go away at Cloudstreet in Chapter IX?
(a) Quick Lamb.
(b) Lester Lamb.
(c) Fish Lamb.
(d) Oriel Lamb.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the young woman that Lon Lamb marries in Chapter IX?

2. To what department is Quick Lamb transferred in the opening of Chapter X?

3. How does Fish Lamb die in Chapter X?

4. Who discovers Quick Lamb after his injury in Chapter VI?

5. What has Dolly Pickles broken in her accident in Chapter IX?

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