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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Harry claim to Ellen?
(a) He saves Ned.
(b) He shot Bill.
(c) He loves her.
(d) Bill shot Ned.
2. How does Ned respond to the commissioner?
(a) He would like to fight man to man.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He is guilty.
(d) He is innocent and wants to be set free.
3. Why does Ned start making fun of Wild's retarded brother, Dummy?
(a) He loves to make fun of Dummy.
(b) It will put Wild in a murderous rage and force the fight Ned wants.
(c) He wants Wild to have him thrown back in prison.
(d) Ned is inherently mean and cruel.
4. Who is the school bully who hears a story about Ned's father and passes it around?
(a) Michael O'Connor.
(b) Dick Shelton.
(c) Patchy Moran.
(d) Red Kelly.
5. What does Ned's mother do to him after his father's death?
(a) She make him become the man of the house against his will.
(b) She sells him off to a bush ranger against his will.
(c) She gives him away, and he is adopted by an Irish family.
(d) She orders him off her property, since he kills his father.
6. To where is Ned transported to receive further interrogation?
(a) Belfast.
(b) Sydney.
(c) London.
(d) Melbourne.
7. Who has a fiery nature, strong temper, and a difficult time dealing with Red Kelly, Ned's father?
(a) Ned's mother.
(b) Ned's grandmother.
(c) Ned's sister.
(d) Ned's aunt.
8. Why do the McCormicks lie and say the Kellys work their horse without permission?
(a) They want to get Ned into trouble.
(b) They want to be compensated.
(c) They want to get rid of the horse.
(d) They like to start trouble.
9. Why does everyone but his mother, brothers and sisters hate Ned?
(a) He turned in Harry Power.
(b) He killed Bill Frost.
(c) He turned in his uncles.
(d) They think he is a traitor.
10. Who summons Ned on behalf of Harry Power?
(a) A strange boy.
(b) Uncle Lloyd.
(c) Caitlin.
(d) Ellen.
11. What does Ellen tell her sons when she picks them up?
(a) She needs to sell them to buy a thousand acre lot.
(b) She is remarried.
(c) She has bought a thousand acre lot.
(d) She loves them.
12. Of what does Ellen Quinn decide the family should be taking advantage?
(a) The Duffy Land Act.
(b) The money from Dick Shelton's family.
(c) The death of Red.
(d) The Embargo Act.
13. What is Ellen's admission that no profit is ever going to show up from the cloth idea?
(a) Bill never returns.
(b) The cloth has disappeared.
(c) She tells Ned that it is just a scheme.
(d) Ellen allows Ned to hired Billy Gray to help on the farm.
14. For what do the police take Ned's father to prison?
(a) He is an abusive alcoholic.
(b) He has actually killed the calf.
(c) Ned admits to killing the calf, trying to save his dad.
(d) He has stolen property.
15. Why is it when Harry Power robs a stage coach, it is a farce?
(a) There is virtually nothing to steal.
(b) He seems as fearful as those in the stagecoach.
(c) The stagecoach new they were going to get robbed.
(d) Ned does most of the work.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Ned get into a huge fight with a farmer?
2. Who visits the home, and it is suggested that he makes an advance on Ellen? She responds by slapping him and calling him a coward.
3. Why does Ned take an alternate way to school?
4. Ned dislikes Bill. How does Bill feel about Ned?
5. How old is George King?
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