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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lewis threaten to do if he finds fault with Jimmie's work?
(a) Cutback Jimmie's workload.
(b) Cut Jimmie's wages.
(c) Beat Jimmie.
(d) Fire Jimmie.

2. What results from Jimmie's Saturday night out with Wongee Tom?
(a) Jimmie injures himself.
(b) Jimmie gets arrested.
(c) Jimmie meets a girl.
(d) Jimmie makes a new friend.

3. When is Jimmie expected to accompany the constable?
(a) When entering a blacks' camp.
(b) When they arrest a black person.
(c) During lunch.
(d) At target practice.

4. Where does Miss Petra Graf live?
(a) With Jimmie and Gilda.
(b) At the Newby's house.
(c) With Farrell.
(d) Next door to Jimmie and Gilda.

5. Why is the initiation tooth given to Jimmie?
(a) For Jimmie to give to Gilda.
(b) For Jimmie to bury.
(c) For Jimmie to wear around his neck.
(d) For Jimmie to keep safe.

6. What does the postmaster's son reveal to Jimmie and the constable?
(a) A riot has broken out in the town centre.
(b) A boy named Jack Fisher had disappeared a year ago.
(c) The postmaster has died.
(d) His sister, MaryBeth, is trapped under a collapsed roof.

7. For what reason does Jimmie suggests Healy won't provide him with the document?
(a) Healy is illiterate.
(b) Healy is racist.
(c) Healy is stingy.
(d) Healy is immoral.

8. What does Jimmie do with his police uniform?
(a) Jimmie throws it in the forest.
(b) Jimmie gives it to Mort.
(c) Jimmie burns it.
(d) Jimmie returns it.

9. Who does Gilda fear and hate?
(a) Jimmie.
(b) Tabidgi Jackie Smolders.
(c) Mr.Newby.
(d) Mort.

10. When Tabidgi Jack Smolders sees Jimmie in Chapter 7, what does he do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Rant.
(c) Chant.
(d) March.

11. What does Jimmie tell the contractor after the contractor tries to short-change him?
(a) He is marrying Gilda and he has four months to live.
(b) He is marrying Gilda and she has many debts.
(c) He is marrying Gilda and she likes to shop.
(d) He is marrying Gilda and she is pregnant.

12. Who is Wongee Tom Carstairs?
(a) Jimmie's co-worker.
(b) A relative of Jimmie's.
(c) Jimmie's mentor.
(d) Jimmie's friend.

13. Who has Jimmie Blacksmith married?
(a) A childhood friend.
(b) A white woman.
(c) A distant cousin.
(d) An aborigine woman.

14. Who offers Gilda new employment?
(a) Mrs. Hayes.
(b) Mrs. Healy.
(c) Miss Graf.
(d) Mrs. Newby.

15. What year do Jimmie and Mort return to Brentwood?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1899.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Healy pay Jimmie for building the fence?

2. In the years following his initiation, what does Jimmie question?

3. What does Jimmie go to the Department on Agriculture for?

4. What does Jimmie think of Gilda?

5. When Jimmie disappeared from the camp in 1891, what did his mother think happened to him?

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