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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who agrees to do the job for a five pound note?
(a) The printer's assistant.
(b) The printer's wife.
(c) The newspaper.
(d) The bank owner.

2. How does this section end?
(a) Rather abruptly.
(b) It fades away.
(c) It slows to a stop.
(d) It becomes silent.

3. What is everywhere in this dream?
(a) Money.
(b) His family.
(c) Ironclads.
(d) Blood.

4. What happens to the thirty policemen?
(a) They are saved and sent back to the station.
(b) They are killed.
(c) They give up and go back to town.
(d) They cannot find the gang.

5. Where does the gang go?
(a) Aaron Sherritt's land.
(b) A clearing in the forest.
(c) A stranger's home.
(d) An abandoned cabin.

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

7. What is the only reason Ned keeps writing?
(a) He does not want to give in to despair.
(b) He wants an account for his gang to keep.
(c) He wants his daughter to know who he is.
(d) He wants Mary to know the truth.

8. What does Mary do when Ned tells her why he can't go to the United States and will not change his mind?
(a) She tries to get Ned's mother released from prison.
(b) She stays with him.
(c) She sends George to the United States to stay with relatives.
(d) She leaves.

9. After the fight ensues, what do the police do?
(a) They run away.
(b) They capture as many hostages as possible.
(c) They are only looking to kill Ned.
(d) Murder any hostages who come out trying to get away.

10. Why do constables and local politicians arrest twenty-one people for just knowing Ned Kelly?
(a) Those people are thieves, like Ned.
(b) They are desperate to prove they are doing something.
(c) They believe these people are part of the Kelly gang.
(d) They have broken the law with Ned.

11. Who intends to kill Ned and Dan?
(a) Sgt. Kennedy.
(b) Steve Hart.
(c) George King.
(d) Constable Flood.

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

13. How does Ned find out he's a father?
(a) Mary calls him.
(b) He receives a telegram from San Francisco.
(c) Mary returns with their child.
(d) He receives a letter from San Francisco.

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

15. Why does Ned not want to go to the United States, even though he has the money?
(a) He does not trust Americans.
(b) He will not leave as long as his mother is in prison.
(c) He is too ill.
(d) He is afraid of riding in a boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the police desperate to arrest anyone they can?

2. Why are all the men affected by this story?

3. Barry refuses Ned and Dan's bargain, and what does he call them?

4. What do Dan and Steve yell while wearing stolen dresses?

5. What will eventually lead to the end of Ned's quiet life?

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