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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Lamb family plants a garden and raises what animals in their half of the yard in Chapter III?
(a) Goats.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Lambs.

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

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

4. 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 severed finger.
(b) A snake.
(c) A giant octopus.
(d) A ship's wheel.

5. What do the members of the Lamb family spin in order to determine who will wash dishes in Chapter III?
(a) A bottle.
(b) A pencil.
(c) A butter knife.
(d) An Indian arrowhead.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the schoolboy die that Quick Lamb gives his lunch to in Chapter IV?

2. What is the Lamb family fishing for in the opening of Chapter II?

3. Sam recuperates in the hospital for how long after his work injury in Chapter I?

4. What does the “blackfella” that Quick Lamb encounters in Chapter III try to sell him?

5. Who is said to run the grocery store like a drill sergeant, keeping a close eye on supply and demand, in Chapter III?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Fish’s mental capacity changed after his accident?

2. What is noteworthy about the narratives of Quick and Fish Lamb in Chapter IV?

3. How do Sam’s actions in Chapter III propel the plot of the narrative forward?

4. What scene is depicted in the brief section prior to the opening of Chapter I?

5. What can the character of Rose Pickles be seen to represent symbolically in Chapter I?

6. qHow does the Lamb family perceive the concept of “fate” as seen in Chapter III?

7. What events occur in January of 1951, according to the narrator in Chapter V?

8. How do the Pickles family members differ from the Lambs in their perception of luck, as noted in Chapter III?

9. How does Oriel Lamb respond to the departure of Quick from Cloudstreet in Chapter V?

10. What is foreshadowed by the central event that occurs in Chapter II of the novel?

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