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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens in this chapter?
(a) A factual event of Ned's hanging.
(b) A blend of folklore and reality.
(c) Ned escapes from the police.
(d) Mary rescues Ned and takes him to the United States.

2. Why is there no mention of survivors?
(a) They are all captured by the police.
(b) The only important characters are those that have been murdered.
(c) It gives the feeling that the hostages may have been burned to prevent the story from getting out.
(d) All the survivors are in hiding.

3. Who is Mary Hearn?
(a) A neighbor.
(b) Ned's daughter's mother.
(c) Alex's sister.
(d) Ned's cousin.

4. Where do Ned and his friends retreat?
(a) A nearby town.
(b) To a neighboring home.
(c) The local bar in town.
(d) Deeper into the Australian wilderness.

5. Of what does Constable Flood accuse Dan?
(a) Stealing the horses.
(b) Stealing from a neighbor.
(c) Killing a cop.
(d) Sleeping with Mary.

6. Why are they having a difficult time crossing the Murray River?
(a) The paths are blocked by cops.
(b) They need a boat.
(c) They can not find a good route.
(d) A landslide has destroyed all good routes.

7. What does Ned do as his group leaves town?
(a) He begins another letter.
(b) He throws away his letter.
(c) He marries the printer's wife.
(d) He curses the town.

8. What does the gang recruit men in their own county to do?
(a) Join the gang.
(b) Flee from the county.
(c) Leave for America.
(d) Make armor and write "blood letters."

9. What are Ned's last words?
(a) "I love you, Mary."
(b) "Such is life."
(c) "Save my mother."
(d) "Why me?"

10. One of Shakespeare's famous plays is read, particularly with reference to what?
(a) Labor Day.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) St. Crispin's Day.
(d) Christmas Day.

11. What does the schoolmaster rip out for Ned to keep?
(a) An article about the Monitor.
(b) A story about the Native Americans.
(c) Two pages of Henry V.
(d) One of Shakespeare's sonnets.

12. Why are the police desperate to arrest anyone they can?
(a) A budget crisis.
(b) They are bored.
(c) They need to find the thieves, and anyone will do.
(d) They are bloodthirsty.

13. What does Thomas Crunow do?
(a) He puts the cops on the wrong track.
(b) He saves the gang.
(c) He stops the train before it crashes.
(d) He crashes the train.

14. What does Aaron Skilling do to Joe?
(a) He gets him high on the opium.
(b) He fights him.
(c) He embarrasses him.
(d) He injures him.

15. Why does Ned not take Mrs Goodman up on her offer to dance?
(a) He is afraid of her.
(b) He wants to dance with Mary instead.
(c) He does not know how to dance.
(d) He does not like her.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what is his dream?

2. What is the only reason Ned keeps writing?

3. How does Ned find out he's a father?

4. What does Ned get from reading about the Monitor?

5. What is Ned carrying with him in Jerilderie?

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