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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Into what room at Cloudstreet do Quick and Rose move in Chapter IX?

3. What do Quick Lamb and Rose Pickles share as they talk while Fish sleeps in Chapter VIII?

4. Why does Beryl Lee say she is moving out in Chapter VII?

5. When Sam comes home from voting in Chapter X, he encounters a black man who tells him what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What themes and/or motifs are the central focus in Chapter VI?

2. What is foreshadowed by Oriel and Quick’s catch of prawns in Chapter VII?

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

4. How does the author address the concept of faith through Oriel and Lester in Chapter X?

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

6. How is the glow surrounding the character of Beryl Lee interpreted in Chapter VII?

7. Where does Quick Lamb work in the beginning if Chapter VI? How is he injured on the job in this chapter?

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

9. How is Rose’s position in work and society described in the beginning of Chapter VIII?

10. What does the character of Lucy Wentworth represent symbolically in the story?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the character of Beryl Lee in the novel. Where does Oriel meet Beryl? Why does she invite Beryl to live at Cloudstreet? How does she fit in with the two families there? Why does Beryl leave Cloudstreet? Where does she go after leaving?

Essay Topic 2

What is the significance of the names in the novel? Why are “Quick” and “Fish” Lamb given these nicknames? What do you think the family name “Pickles” signifies? How are the characteristics of the Lamb and Pickles families represented by their names?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the character of Rose Pickles and the narrative focus on Rose in Chapter I. How old is Rose when the novel begins? What is Rose’s relationship like with her brothers and parents? How does Rose’s character evolve throughout the novel?

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