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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Mrs. Healy holding when Jimmie enters the house?
(a) A baby.
(b) Knitting needles.
(c) A basket.
(d) A gun.

3. What does Mort do at the holy place?
(a) Hide.
(b) Chant.
(c) Drum on the rocks.
(d) Dance.

4. What do preachers do following the murders?
(a) Ask the public to pray for Jimmie's capture.
(b) Spread the news in their services.
(c) Hold an over the top funeral for the victims.
(d) Join the police in their pursuit.

5. Where is Ted Knoller waiting?
(a) Victoria.
(b) Perth.
(c) Brentwood.
(d) Sydney.

6. How many seconds go by before Mr. Hyberry trips the lever when hanging someone?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Ten.
(d) Thirty.

7. Whose hut do Jimmie and Mort walk nearly twenty-five miles to reach?
(a) Mullet's hut.
(b) Swanson's hut.
(c) Barret's hut.
(d) Potter's hut.

8. Why do Jimmie and Mort ride on cows?
(a) To escape from the police.
(b) To hide their tracks.
(c) To give their legs a rest.
(d) To reach Brentwood more quickly.

9. What does Jimmie tell Mort to do after they flee?
(a) Get fresh meat.
(b) Find shelter.
(c) Start a fire.
(d) Go home.

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

11. Where do Dowie and Dud go after reading the article?
(a) The police station.
(b) A bar.
(c) The general store.
(d) A nearby farm.

12. What do McCreadie and Mort argue about?
(a) The brothers' murders.
(b) Which direction to head in.
(c) The African War.
(d) Race relations.

13. What does Mr. Hyberry do before the day of a hanging?
(a) Light a candle.
(b) Read a particular passage from the bible.
(c) Meditate.
(d) Survey the man to be hung.

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

15. What does the old man ask Jimmie and Mort?
(a) If they are planning on robbing him.
(b) If they are travelling salesmen.
(c) If they are in need of shelter.
(d) If they are the Blacksmith brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do Jimmie and Mort cross the Divide?

2. What did Mort and Jimmie leave at the camp?

3. What is Mr. Newby doing when Jimmie and Tabidgi visit?

4. How much labor has Jimmie still not been paid for by Mr. Newby in Chapter 8?

5. In which direction do Jimmie and the others flee after the attack?

(see the answer keys)

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