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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who answers the door at the Newby's house when Jimmie and Tabidgi visit?
(a) Mrs.Newby.
(b) Mrs. Newby's daughter.
(c) Miss Graf.
(d) The butler.

2. What evidence does Dowie find in the schoolteacher's house?
(a) Blood on the couch.
(b) Blood on a pillow.
(c) Blood on a rag.
(d) Blood on a towel.

3. How many hours after they flee does Jimmie allow for a rest?
(a) Four hours.
(b) Two hours.
(c) Seven hours.
(d) Ten hours.

4. Why does Jimmie travel to the Healy's home?
(a) To kill Mrs. Healy.
(b) To steal bread.
(c) To ask for money.
(d) To take Mr. Healy hostage.

5. Who arrives at the Newby home on Monday morning?
(a) Gilda.
(b) Tabidgi.
(c) Rev.Neville.
(d) Dowie Stead.

6. What do Jimmie and Mort do after running from the police for one mile?
(a) Turn themselves in.
(b) Find shelter and go to sleep.
(c) Wade through water to avoid leaving tracks.
(d) Hide their rifles and climb a tree.

7. In which direction do Jimmie and the others flee after the attack?
(a) West.
(b) North.
(c) South.
(d) East.

8. Why is Dowie more indecisive than ever?
(a) Dowie has forgotten the relief he felt over Miss Graf's death.
(b) Dowie is afraid he will be the Blacksmith brothers' next victim.
(c) Dowie knows that Jimmie and Mort know the terrain more than he does.
(d) Dowie is tired of chasing the brothers all over Australia.

9. Why is there a particularly good day to loot houses?
(a) The country people are working in the fields on that day.
(b) The country people go to church on that day.
(c) The country people go to parties on that day.
(d) The country people go into town on that day.

10. What does Jimmie take from the Newby household?
(a) Food and blankets.
(b) Money and cigars.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Food, guns, and ammunition.

11. What does Jimmie read after breaking into a schoolteacher's home?
(a) A grocery list.
(b) The newspaper.
(c) A school textbook.
(d) Some letters.

12. What did Mort and Jimmie leave at the camp?
(a) A map and flask.
(b) Food, blankets and Jimmie's initiation tooth.
(c) Their rifles.
(d) Their shoes, food and blankets.

13. Where does a bullet strike Jimmie?
(a) Face.
(b) Leg.
(c) Chest.
(d) Arm.

14. How large are the tallest of the rocks at the initiation site McCreadie shows Jimmie and Mort?
(a) Eight feet tall.
(b) Twenty feet tall.
(c) Twelve feet tall.
(d) Four feet tall.

15. Where is Mr. Newby when Jimmie and Tabidgi go to the Newby house?
(a) In the fields.
(b) In the barn.
(c) At the old farmhouse.
(d) Next door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Hyberry tell Ted he would never do?

2. What is the holy place shaped like?

3. Who does Jimmie begin to write a letter to?

4. Why do Jimmie and Mort carry McCreadie on their backs?

5. Who takes Gilda away?

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