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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. Who has sex on the kitchen table in Chapter VII?
(a) Quick Lamb and Rose Pickles.
(b) Chub Pickles and Elaine Lamb.
(c) Dolly Pickles and Lester Lamb.
(d) Wogga McBride and Rose Pickles.

2. How long do Rose and Quick date before they wed in Chapter VIII?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 2 years.

3. How many previous occupants of Number One Cloud Street died in the house prior to the Pickles family inheriting it?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the son that Rose gives birth to in Chapter IX?

2. Who confronts Lester Lamb in Chapter VII about the affair he’s become engaged in?

3. When Quick’s son is born in Chapter IX, Quick remarks that the baby is slippery like what?

4. Who decides to accompany Rose, Quick, and their son, on vacation in Chapter X?

5. What does Quick Lamb begin selling through the grocery shop in Chapter VIII?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is foreshadowed by the marriage of Hattie Lamb in Chapter VII?

2. How does Toby Raven respond when his work is mistaken for another writer’s at the party in Chapter VIII? What is indicated by this response?

3. What is seen on the walls of the library at Cloudstreet in Chapter IX? What do these images represent?

4. What is foreshadowed by the odd glow that surrounds Quick Lamb in Chapter VII?

5. What is represented symbolically by the naked children in the wheat in Chapter X?

6. What is foreshadowed by Rose’s realization about leadership in Chapter X?

7. What is represented symbolically by the black hitchhiker that Quick Lamb meets in Chapter VI?

8. What is revealed in the conversation between Lester and Oriel Lamb after the return of Quick in Chapter VII?

9. How does the relationship between Dolly and Rose Pickles evolve in Chapter IX?

10. What does the shadow girl that Fish speaks with represent symbolically in Chapter VII?

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