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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. How does Jimmie's progress with the fence go?

2. Where does Jimmie go to arrange his marriage?

3. Where does Mrs. Newby tell Gilda she can have the baby?

4. What does Healy insist Jimmie do by the next morning, after their argument?

5. Who kills a white man in Verona?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Farrell satisfied with Jimmie?

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

4. Why does Jimmie think that it will be good to work for the police?

5. Why do Jimmie and Mort stop working for Claude Lewis?

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

7. What is the significance of Jimmie's initiation tooth?

8. Why does Tabidgi Jackie Smolders visit Jimmie?

9. How was Jimmie punished for Healy's dissatisfaction with the fence?

10. What does Mr. Newby do that is just like Jimmie's previous employers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jimmie faces harsh and cruel discrimination on a daily basis and even has his food and income taken from him because of racial prejudices. Write an opinion essay on how Jimmie should have handled the hostile environment he found himself in.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss discrimination in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. Who is affected by discrimination, and what is the root cause of it?

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