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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who agrees to do the job for a five pound note?
(a) The bank owner.
(b) The printer's assistant.
(c) The newspaper.
(d) The printer's wife.

2. What is Ned carrying with him in Jerilderie?
(a) A book he is writing.
(b) A revolver.
(c) His child.
(d) A 58 page letter of the true events.

3. Why does Ned get into an argument with Steve Hart?
(a) Ned is in a bad mood.
(b) They disagree all the time.
(c) He is increasingly getting on Ned's nerves.
(d) Steve is unkind.

4. What does the gang recruit men in their own county to do?
(a) Join the gang.
(b) Flee from the county.
(c) Make armor and write "blood letters."
(d) Leave for America.

5. How does the gang win allies?
(a) They bribe other people in the county.
(b) They let many men into the gang.
(c) They write propaganda for the gang.
(d) They help out by doing field work at harvest time.

6. Ned falls in love with Mary, and what does he buy her as a gift?
(a) A hat.
(b) A purse.
(c) A new pair of shoes.
(d) A dress.

7. From whom does George King learn to steal horses?
(a) His father.
(b) Native Americans.
(c) Local Australians.
(d) Natives in the Outback.

8. What happens to the thirty policemen?
(a) They are saved and sent back to the station.
(b) They are killed.
(c) They give up and go back to town.
(d) They cannot find the gang.

9. In what has Ned lost faith?
(a) God.
(b) That anyone in the government will do anything.
(c) His wife.
(d) His gang.

10. What is one of Ned's final requests?
(a) To have his letter sent to Mary.
(b) To see his mother one last time.
(c) To be set free, for he is innocent.
(d) To be buried in consecrated ground.

11. Why can Ned not find a printer?
(a) There is no printer in town.
(b) The printer is murdered.
(c) The printer refuses to come out of his house.
(d) He has left town.

12. What is his other request?
(a) To have his mother released.
(b) To tell his side of the story.
(c) To see his daughter before he dies.
(d) To be buried at his home.

13. Who intends to kill Ned and Dan?
(a) Steve Hart.
(b) Constable Flood.
(c) George King.
(d) Sgt. Kennedy.

14. Why do constables and local politicians arrest twenty-one people for just knowing Ned Kelly?
(a) They have broken the law with Ned.
(b) They believe these people are part of the Kelly gang.
(c) They are desperate to prove they are doing something.
(d) Those people are thieves, like Ned.

15. Why are the police desperate to arrest anyone they can?
(a) They need to find the thieves, and anyone will do.
(b) They are bored.
(c) A budget crisis.
(d) They are bloodthirsty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas Crunow do?

2. What is Mary's father's job?

3. Barry refuses Ned and Dan's bargain, and what does he call them?

4. On what does Ned finally give up?

5. Where does the gang go?

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