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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the novel start?
(a) With Ned's life as a young father.
(b) With Red's life as a young child.
(c) With Grace's life as a young child.
(d) With Ned's life as a young child.

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

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

4. What is actually happening as Ned dreams about burning in hell?
(a) He has been wrapped up in warm blankets.
(b) The house is on fire.
(c) He has fallen asleep near the heater.
(d) The hot summer sun is rising.

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

6. Why does Ned begin to hate his uncle?
(a) He beats his sisters.
(b) He is just looking to get into bed with his mother.
(c) He steals from the family.
(d) He is unkind to his mother.

7. Who looks like an apparition of Red?
(a) Alex Gunn.
(b) Ned.
(c) Uncle James.
(d) Bill Frost.

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

9. What do Turk Morrison, Bill Frost, Alex Gunn, and the infamous Harry Power have in common?
(a) They are suitors.
(b) They want to help on the farm.
(c) They all love Ellen.
(d) They are criminals.

10. What is Ellen's admission that no profit is ever going to show up from the cloth idea?
(a) Bill never returns.
(b) Ellen allows Ned to hired Billy Gray to help on the farm.
(c) The cloth has disappeared.
(d) She tells Ned that it is just a scheme.

11. Why does the family bring out the good table cloth and candles, and they eat everything Ellen has baked?
(a) The Harry Power turns himself in.
(b) Ned has made up his mind.
(c) The charges have been dropped.
(d) Ned has decided not to turn himself in.

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

13. THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG is what type of genre based around the life of famous bush ranger and Australian folk hero, Ned Kelly?
(a) Historical fiction.
(b) Myth.
(c) Science Fiction.
(d) Nonfiction.

14. Why does Ned start making fun of Wild's retarded brother, Dummy?
(a) He wants Wild to have him thrown back in prison.
(b) He loves to make fun of Dummy.
(c) It will put Wild in a murderous rage and force the fight Ned wants.
(d) Ned is inherently mean and cruel.

15. About what is Ned not concerned?
(a) Going to court.
(b) Having a visit from his mother.
(c) Be put back in jail.
(d) Being released.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ned and Harry travel through to get to Bill?

2. How do the cops and Cons Hall set a trap for Uncle Jimmy and Pat Quinn?

3. What does Ned say about how much he and his father communicate the final eight months of his father's life?

4. How are the chapters referred to through out the book?

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

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