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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 think of Mrs Healy?

2. What is Tabidgi's "white" name?

3. Where did Jimmie get married?

4. What is Jimmie afraid that Farrell will do after he leaves work?

5. What document does Healy withhold when Jimmie finishes the fence?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the place and time that the novel is set in.

5. Toward the end of Chapter 2, what has Jimmie decided is the key to bettering his life?

6. Why does Jimmie leave home after only staying there for two days?

7. Why is Gilda glad that she will be able to give birth in the main house?

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

9. What does Mrs. Newby do for Gilda?

10. Why does Tabidgi Jackie Smolders visit Jimmie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the relationship between Jimmie and Gilda. What is it a representation of? Use evidence from the novel to support your conclusion.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Jimmie is half-Aborigine and half-white. How does Jimmie's struggle with identity affect his life emotionally? In what way are his actions affected by his struggle with identity?

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