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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it when Harry Power robs a stage coach, it is a farce?
(a) The stagecoach new they were going to get robbed.
(b) He seems as fearful as those in the stagecoach.
(c) There is virtually nothing to steal.
(d) Ned does most of the work.

2. To whom is Alex Gunn engaged?
(a) Ellen.
(b) Mary.
(c) Annie.
(d) Grace.

3. Harry Power says, "forget your mamma. There ain't no happiness for neither of us at Eleven Mile Creek." What is significant about this statement?
(a) Eleven Mile Creek is the only place they will find happiness.
(b) Harry had forgotten his own mamma.
(c) Harry loves Ned's mamma.
(d) It is the best piece of advice Ned will receive.

4. Who rides up and slanders Ned?
(a) Harry Powers and Uncle Jimmy.
(b) Cons Hall and John Fitzpatrick.
(c) His Uncle Jimmy and Pat Quinn.
(d) John Fitzpatrick and several cops.

5. Why is there nothing Ned can do about his seventeen stolen horses?
(a) Ned is in trouble wit h the law.
(b) No one trusts or believes him.
(c) Constable Flood steals them.
(d) His brother, Jem, steals them.

6. What is the only work Ned can find?
(a) Working in the fields.
(b) Splitting posts for the police.
(c) Robbing stage coaches.
(d) Breaking horses.

7. How is James Whitty released from his deal with the devil?
(a) His wife trades her soul for his.
(b) The devil tires of him.
(c) The devil feels sorry for him.
(d) He asks for every lawyer to be made honest, which impossible to do.

8. It is an eyewitness account starting when?
(a) In the middle of a gunfight.
(b) At the beginning of a gunfight.
(c) At the end of a gunfight.
(d) Years after the famous gunfight.

9. Why does everyone but his mother, brothers and sisters hate Ned?
(a) He killed Bill Frost.
(b) He turned in his uncles.
(c) They think he is a traitor.
(d) He turned in Harry Power.

10. What does Kevin, the Rat Charmer predict?
(a) Problems with rats.
(b) Rats in the barn.
(c) Freedom from rats.
(d) A plague of rats, and baby Ellen dies.

11. Who summons Ned on behalf of Harry Power?
(a) Caitlin.
(b) Ellen.
(c) A strange boy.
(d) Uncle Lloyd.

12. Why do the McCormicks lie and say the Kellys work their horse without permission?
(a) They like to start trouble.
(b) They want to be compensated.
(c) They want to get rid of the horse.
(d) They want to get Ned into trouble.

13. Who is falsely charged with the theft of the watch and gelding?
(a) Uncle James.
(b) Ned.
(c) Uncle Jack Lloyd.
(d) Bill.

14. How does Ned's honor result in him going to prison for six months?
(a) He writes a threatening note to the McCormicks.
(b) He refuses to turn in Ben.
(c) He threatens Cons.
(d) He is guilty of stealing the McCormicks' horse.

15. To where is Ned transported to receive further interrogation?
(a) London.
(b) Sydney.
(c) Belfast.
(d) Melbourne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finds a dress and some face paint?

2. What does Ned's mother do to him after his father's death?

3. What are extremely dangerous, and their bites are worse than the worst wasp sting?

4. Ned Kelly takes place in some competitions early such as riding and the long jump that he wins, but what does he realize?

5. How does this prelude begin?

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