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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 the newly passed bill affect Jimmie and Mort?

2. Who arrives at the Newby home on Monday morning?

3. What is Mrs. Healy holding when Jimmie enters the house?

4. Why is Dowie more indecisive than ever?

5. What do Jimmie and Mort drop along the way during their escape?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does McCreadie tell Jimmie to leave Mort, and how does Jimmie react?

2. What does Dowie find in the schoolteacher's home?

3. Why does Jimmie want to kill Miss Graf?

4. What happens when Mort and Jimmie find a little house with an old couple inside?

5. Why does Jimmie send Gilda and the baby away?

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

7. Why does Mort paint his face white?

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

9. Why do Jimmie and Tabidgi visit the Newby household in Chapter 8?

10. Who is McCreadie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Who or what is the antagonist of the story? Provide examples from the novel to support your conclusion.

Essay Topic 3

What is the significance of Jimmie killing mainly women and not men?

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