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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jimmie tell the contractor after the contractor tries to short-change him?

3. What year do Jimmie and Mort return to Brentwood?

4. What do members of Jimmie's totem begin to associate fencing and similar tasks with?

5. Why does the minister's wife think Jimmie is cutting down wood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mrs. Newby do for Gilda?

2. What are we told happened in 1891?

3. Who does Jimmie fall in love with in Chapter 2?

4. Why doesn't Jimmie tell Farrell what he knew about Harry Edwards?

5. What does Miss Graf do to help Gilda and how does Gilda react?

6. Why was Healy unhappy with the fence Jimmie built?

7. Why is Farrell satisfied with Jimmie?

8. Why is Jimmie awakened one night by someone in Verona?

9. What sort of work do Jimmie and Mort do?

10. Why does Jimmie quit his job with the police?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the depiction of the white characters in the novel. Were they all racist towards Aborigines? Why did the author choose to depict them the way he did?

Essay Topic 2

Outline what events and circumstances of Jimmie's life caused him to go on a killing spree.

Essay Topic 3

Describe how the author's use of third-person perspective in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith affected the telling of the story. What does the reader know that the characters do not because of this? What is left a mystery?

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