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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. How is Quick Lamb injured in Chapter VI?
(a) His hand becomes entangled in a winch.
(b) He is shot by a poacher.
(c) He is hit by a bus while walking across the street.
(d) He is kicked in the chest by a kangaroo.
2. The serial killer that terrorizes Perth in Chapter IX is based on what real-life figure?
(a) Eric Edgar Cooke.
(b) Richard Ramirez.
(c) James Walter Goodman.
(d) Peter McAnderson.
3. Quick and Rose find a flat and move to what suburb in Chapter IX?
(a) Subiaco.
(b) Fremantle.
(c) Mosman Park.
(d) Geraldton.
4. What hobby does Dolly Pickles take up in Chapter X?
(a) Building model airplanes.
(b) Crossword puzzles.
(c) Feeding birds.
(d) Baking pies
5. What do Quick Lamb and Rose Pickles share as they talk while Fish sleeps in Chapter VIII?
(a) Wine.
(b) Brandy.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Beer.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the young woman that Lon Lamb marries in Chapter IX?
2. What kind of restaurant does Toby Raven invite Rose to for their first official date in Chapter VIII?
3. The boy that Quick finds drowned in the river in Chapter X turns out to be whose son?
4. Where do the Lamb and Pickles families arrange a picnic in Chapter X?
5. Where did the Lamb family live before they moved into the house at Number One Cloud Street?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Rose’s position in work and society described in the beginning of Chapter VIII?
2. What does Quick dream of when he is knocked unconscious in Chapter VI?
3. How does the author’s structural development reflect his themes in Chapter IX?
4. What bad things begin happening after Sam Pickles has foreseen bad luck in Chapter IX?
5. What is revealed in the conversation between Lester and Oriel Lamb after the return of Quick in Chapter VII?
6. What does Rose Pickles initially find attractive about Toby Raven in Chapter VIII? How do her feelings change?
7. What purpose does the appearance of the black man serve in Chapter IX?
8. 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?
9. How is the glow surrounding the character of Beryl Lee interpreted in Chapter VII?
10. What happens to the images on the walls of the library at Cloudstreet when Rose gives birth in Chapter IX? What does this symbolize?
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