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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. Where does Mort carry McCreadie after Jimmie leaves them?

2. What does Jimmie love doing?

3. How many seconds go by before Mr. Hyberry trips the lever when hanging someone?

4. What do McCreadie and Mort argue about?

5. Who answers the door at the Newby's house when Jimmie and Tabidgi visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jimmie want to kill Miss Graf?

2. What place does McCreadie show the brothers?

3. What news does Mr. Hyberry receive in Chapter 14, and how does he react?

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

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

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

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

8. How is McCreadie's health?

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

10. What happens to Jimmie while he is wading in a stream?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Jimmie's capture. In what manner was he captured, and what does this tell us about the protagonist?

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