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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ned not like Bill Frost?
(a) He is Ellen's suitor.
(b) He pretends to know everything about agriculture and land management.
(c) Ned has to work harder when Bill is around.
(d) Bill knows more about agriculture and land management than Ned.

2. What is one of the worst and most notorious prisons in a land full of bad prisons?
(a) Van Dyke's Land.
(b) Van Diemen's Land.
(c) Gaol Prison.
(d) Van Eyke's Land.

3. What does Ned realize James has done?
(a) Stolen horses.
(b) Married his sister.
(c) Slept with his mother.
(d) Started the fire,

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

5. Who is Tom Lloyd?
(a) A stranger in town.
(b) Ned's enemy.
(c) Ned's main friend during this time.
(d) A thief.

6. At the trail what does Ned refuse to do?
(a) Testify against his family.
(b) Get himself thrown in jail.
(c) Tell the truth.
(d) Speak.

7. What do Ned and Harry travel through to get to Bill?
(a) A mob.
(b) The outback.
(c) A eucalyptus fire.
(d) The wreckage of a building.

8. How are the chapters referred to through out the book?
(a) As years.
(b) As letters.
(c) As parcels
(d) As sections.

9. To what does Ned say he becomes addicted?
(a) Stealing.
(b) Murder.
(c) His mother's pie.
(d) Danger.

10. How do the cops and Cons Hall set a trap for Uncle Jimmy and Pat Quinn?
(a) They get them to talk during the trial.
(b) They convince Ned to set it.
(c) The lure them in using Ned.
(d) They set it up at the jail.

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

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

13. Who does Ned meet for the first time at this meal?
(a) The woman he will marry.
(b) His Uncles.
(c) His sister Ellen Kelly.
(d) Caitlin.

14. 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) Harry loves Ned's mamma.
(b) It is the best piece of advice Ned will receive.
(c) Harry had forgotten his own mamma.
(d) Eleven Mile Creek is the only place they will find happiness.

15. What does police officer Cons Flood make his life mission?
(a) To marry Annie.
(b) To save Ned.
(c) To put criminals behind bars.
(d) Put Ned in prison as often as possible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finds a dress and some face paint?

2. How does the novel start?

3. Why is there nothing Ned can do about his seventeen stolen horses?

4. What does Quinn hit Cons in the head with that gashes his head open?

5. Who is described as dangerously powerful?

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