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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does he celebrate the birth of his child?
(a) He cries.
(b) He sings a song.
(c) Standing on one leg on his horse and shooting guns in the air.
(d) He sends his child a telegram.

2. In what has Ned lost faith?
(a) His gang.
(b) His wife.
(c) God.
(d) That anyone in the government will do anything.

3. What is Mary's father's job?
(a) A tinsmith.
(b) A carpenter.
(c) A blacksmith.
(d) A goldsmith.

4. Where is the gang headed when they meet up?
(a) The Bush.
(b) Melbourne.
(c) Sydney.
(d) Moyhu.

5. What does Ned's sister, Katie, do for Mary?
(a) She cooks her a big meal before sending her on her way.
(b) She asks who she is before letting her in.
(c) Takes her in before she even knows who Mary is.
(d) She forces Mary off her property.

6. Why does Ned get into an argument with Steve Hart?
(a) Steve is unkind.
(b) He is increasingly getting on Ned's nerves.
(c) Ned is in a bad mood.
(d) They disagree all the time.

7. Where does Ned find the information about the Monitor?
(a) In an old article on ocean craft.
(b) In the local newspaper.
(c) In a book about United States military tactics.
(d) A cabin full of papers from the Civil War.

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

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

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

11. On whom do Ned and Joe spy?
(a) Constable Flood.
(b) The constables.
(c) George King.
(d) Sgt. Kennedy.

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

13. What does the man who put them up call the boys in dresses?
(a) True Irishmen.
(b) Embarrrassing to him.
(c) Good Irish boys.
(d) Disgraces to bush rangers.

14. What is one of Ned's final requests?
(a) To be set free, for he is innocent.
(b) To see his mother one last time.
(c) To be buried in consecrated ground.
(d) To have his letter sent to Mary.

15. What does Mary do when she sees the boys show up in dresses?
(a) She faints.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She beats him up.
(d) She cries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the wife do with the five pounds?

2. One of Shakespeare's famous plays is read, particularly with reference to what?

3. When they return two weeks later, what do they find out?

4. The gang is fighting emotional stress, bad weather, disease, and is always just a few steps away from who?

5. What does Joe see from a hidden vantage point?

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