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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has to happen before Mr. Hyberry can receive honors from the Premier?
(a) The brothers must be exiled.
(b) The brothers' victims must come back from the dead.
(c) The brothers must be caught and hung.
(d) The brothers must be tried in a court of law.

2. Who does Mort know at the camp?
(a) Nancy.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Gilda.
(d) Lola.

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

4. Who does Jimmie want to kill instead of Mr. Newby?
(a) The minister.
(b) Mrs. Newby.
(c) Miss Graf.
(d) Himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jimmie tells Tabidgi the problem, what does Tabidgi suggest?

2. What does Gilda tell Jimmie she really believed?

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

4. In Chapter 13, what do Dowie and Dud read an article about?

5. Where does Jimmie suggest they put McCreadie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the new bill that is created in response to the brothers.

2. What happens to Jimmie while he is wading in a stream?

3. Why does Jimmie leave Tabidgi behind?

4. How does Mort react to the murder of Mrs. Healy and the baby?

5. Who is McCreadie?

6. According to Mr. Newby, why does he stop giving the Blacksmiths' groceries?

7. How is McCreadie getting along with the brothers?

8. What place does McCreadie show the brothers?

9. What does Dowie mean when he says that he has become a figure of sentiment that must be maintained?

10. Why does Dowie Stead go after Jimmie and Mort?

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