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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kevin the Rat Charmer promise Ellen?
(a) To charm all the rats away.
(b) To bring rats to Ellen's home, unless she pays him.
(c) To charm all the rats away for payment.
(d) To sell Ellen cats who will kill the rats.

2. What are Ned's famous last words?
(a) "Such is life."
(b) "So this is it?"
(c) "I did no wrong."
(d) "Jesus, save me."

3. What does Ned do to the Murray's calf that is stuck?
(a) He tries to pet it.
(b) He tries to save it.
(c) He tries to free it.
(d) He tries to kill it.

4. Who does Annie marry?
(a) Harry Power.
(b) Bill Frost.
(c) Alex Gunn.
(d) Billy Gray.

5. What does Harry take the time to point out about the wood?
(a) It is very smooth.
(b) It is a hardwood.
(c) It is so thick as to be bullet proof.
(d) It is easy to cut.

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

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

8. Who seduces Annie while Alex Gunn is still in prison, and gets her pregnant?
(a) Bill Frost.
(b) John Fitzgerald.
(c) Patrick Hughes.
(d) Cons Flood.

9. At fifteen years old, what does Ned have to do?
(a) Marry Caitlin.
(b) Kill Bill.
(c) Become an outlaw.
(d) Move back home.

10. The creature turns out to be who, covered in thick sheets of iron, but not at the legs?
(a) Ned Kelly.
(b) Cons Flood.
(c) Jem Kelly.
(d) Red Kelly.

11. Of what does Ellen Quinn decide the family should be taking advantage?
(a) The money from Dick Shelton's family.
(b) The Duffy Land Act.
(c) The death of Red.
(d) The Embargo Act.

12. Why is the age of twelve significant for Ned?
(a) It is the age he is when he moves away from home.
(b) It is the age he is when he begins acting like Robin Hood.
(c) It is the age he is when he quits school.
(d) It is the age he is when his father dies.

13. How is Ned viewed after the fight?
(a) As a warrior.
(b) As someone to fear.
(c) As a hero.
(d) As a jerk.

14. To what American is Harry Power compared?
(a) Billy the Kid.
(b) Dick Tracy.
(c) Al Capone.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

15. Why does Ned take an alternate way to school?
(a) He is meeting a friend.
(b) To avoid teasing.
(c) He wants an adventure.
(d) The road is destroyed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does police officer Cons Flood make his life mission?

2. 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?

3. Who is the school bully who hears a story about Ned's father and passes it around?

4. What is Ellen's admission that no profit is ever going to show up from the cloth idea?

5. To who is Ned's life very much akin?

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