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Lamb & Pickles - Tim Winton's "Cloudstreet"

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Introduction:
"Tim Winton's "Cloudstreet", a 1992 Miles Franklin Award winner, is a classic and timeless novel with a distinct emphasis on Australian life and humour. The story covers a 20 year period."


1. The opening setting of "Cloudstreet" is Western Australia in which era?
    World War I
    The Great Depression
    Vietnam War
    World War II


2. Sam Pickles wins his pet, Stan, in a bet. What kind of pet is Stan?
    A black stallion
    A white cat
    A blue heeler
    A pink cockatoo


3. In which activity does the Lamb family participate to help make random decisions, such as who must wash the dishes?
    Spin the bowl
    Heads or tails
    Spin the bottle
    Spin the knife


4. Who are the two main supernatural figures that seem to dwell in the library at Cloudstreet?
    An Aboriginal man and a young girl
    An elderly white lady and a young Aboriginal girl
    Two former Aboriginal mission girls
    An elderly married couple


5. The Perth community in "Cloudstreet" starts to question what it means to be a real city in the 1960s, stripped of its innocence, due to what occurrence?
    A violent street demonstration
    A bombing
    A serial killer attacking random victims
    Aborigines gaining the right to vote


6. When Sam Pickles returns home beaten up, Dolly asks how much money he owes and if he has some Union mates to back him up. Why, according to Sam, does he not have any back up?
    The Union doesn't want to be involved
    It is the Union he owes
    Sam doesn't want the Union involved
    The Union doesn't know about it


7. When Fish Lamb is first revived after the drowning incident, what is Quick Lamb the only one to hear?
    Fish's giggle
    Fish gurgling up the water
    Fish's hurt moan
    An eerie wind across the water


8. "If the rich gamble, they do it with money filched from the wage earner. If the poor, they play with their children's bread. Where, indeed, is there a class that may gamble and rob none?" Who says this Mary Gilmore quote?
    Dolly Pickles
    Oriel Lamb
    Rose Pickles
    Beryl Lee


9. What is the name of Joel's pub in which the Pickles family stayed in Geraldton?
    The Bull and Bear
    The Ale House
    The Rhythm
    The Eurythmic


10. Despite their new red brick house in the suburbs, Quick and Rose Lamb end up living where?
    Mrs Manners' bedsit
    The Margaret River farm
    Nedlands
    Cloudstreet


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