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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 tell Mort to do after they flee?

2. According to the brothers, which is the best day to loot houses?

3. Who does Jimmie begin to write a letter to?

4. Where does Jimmie suggest they put McCreadie?

5. How does Jimmie feel when at the holy place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jimmie attack the women?

2. How is McCreadie's health?

3. Is Jimmie happy to be left alone with Mort?

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

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

6. Who is McCreadie?

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

8. What happens to Mort in Chapter 14?

9. What happens at Pilbarra Camp?

10. How is McCreadie getting along with the brothers?

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

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

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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