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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do preachers do following the murders?
(a) Hold an over the top funeral for the victims.
(b) Join the police in their pursuit.
(c) Spread the news in their services.
(d) Ask the public to pray for Jimmie's capture.

2. What do Jimmie and Mort see when they head towards Verona?
(a) An abandoned barn.
(b) A village on fire.
(c) A robbery.
(d) Mounted police.

3. Why do Jimmie and Mort carry McCreadie on their backs?
(a) McCreadie has broken his foot.
(b) McCreadie has a large thorn stuck in his heel.
(c) McCreadie is very sick.
(d) McCreadie is in a state of delirium and cannot walk straight.

4. What is Jimmie concerned about telling Mort?
(a) That Jimmie stole from the Newby home.
(b) That Jimmie wants to separate.
(c) That they are lost.
(d) That Jimmie killed women.

5. After Mort dies, how many hours pass before Dowie arrives?
(a) Two.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Eight.
(d) Four.

6. What does Mr. Hyberry tell Ted he would never do?
(a) Pray for a murderer.
(b) Hang a woman.
(c) Forgive Jimmie.
(d) Pursue a killer.

7. What did Mort and Jimmie leave at the camp?
(a) Their rifles.
(b) Food, blankets and Jimmie's initiation tooth.
(c) A map and flask.
(d) Their shoes, food and blankets.

8. In Chapter 13, what do Dowie and Dud read an article about?
(a) Racial relations in Australia.
(b) Jimmie and Mort Blacksmith.
(c) Tabidgi's sentencing.
(d) The Boer war.

9. How does Jimmie feel when at the holy place?
(a) Peaceful and serene.
(b) Happy and refreshed.
(c) Afraid and confused.
(d) Disturbed and angry.

10. What do Mort and Jimmie reach by midday in Chapter 11?
(a) A cave.
(b) A village.
(c) Some water.
(d) A camp.

11. How large are the tallest of the rocks at the initiation site McCreadie shows Jimmie and Mort?
(a) Four feet tall.
(b) Twelve feet tall.
(c) Twenty feet tall.
(d) Eight feet tall.

12. According to the brothers, which is the best day to loot houses?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Sunday.

13. Who brings the man to be hung to Mr. Hyberry?
(a) The wardens.
(b) A police officer.
(c) A janitor.
(d) A priest.

14. Why does Jimmie travel to the Healy's home?
(a) To kill Mrs. Healy.
(b) To ask for money.
(c) To take Mr. Healy hostage.
(d) To steal bread.

15. What time do the brothers arrive at a small house in Chapter 11?
(a) Nine o'clock.
(b) One o'clock.
(c) Four o'clock.
(d) Three o'clock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the schoolteacher show the brothers?

2. Whose hut do Jimmie and Mort walk nearly twenty-five miles to reach?

3. How does the newly passed bill affect Jimmie and Mort?

4. Where is Mr. Newby going to move?

5. After the violence in Chapter 8, what does Jimmie realize?

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