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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Ned forced to shoot, and kill one of the constables?
(a) He is running at Ned.
(b) One constable goes for his gun.
(c) He shoots at Ned first.
(d) He threatens Ned.

3. When they return two weeks later, what do they find out?
(a) The letter has been handed over to the police.
(b) The letter has been printed.
(c) Every person in town has a copy of his letter.
(d) The printer has been killed.

4. What is the "Greta Mob"?
(a) A bunch of harmless boys.
(b) A dangerous group of boys.
(c) A group of men that wear women's dresses.
(d) A fierce and violent gang.

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

6. How does the chapter end?
(a) The schoolmaster promises to eventually write the history.
(b) His mother is freed.
(c) The school master reads Henry V.
(d) Mary returns.

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

8. What does the schoolmaster promise?
(a) To save Ned.
(b) To protect Ned.
(c) To murder the police.
(d) To write Ned's story.

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

10. Why do Ned and Steve have two rails removed from the tracks?
(a) The track is broken.
(b) They will use the rails as weapons.
(c) The constables are going to be loaded on a train.
(d) The rails will be attached to their armor.

11. Barry refuses Ned and Dan's bargain, and what does he call them?
(a) Dead men.
(b) Louts.
(c) Miscreants.
(d) Losers.

12. Where is Ned when the constables close in on Dan, Steve, and Joe?
(a) He is injured.
(b) He is away.
(c) He is with the constables.
(d) He is in hiding.

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

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

15. What will eventually lead to the end of Ned's quiet life?
(a) Losing his job.
(b) Being drawn back into the happenings of his family.
(c) Getting back into stealing horses.
(d) Being friends with Alex Fitzgerald.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are they having a difficult time crossing the Murray River?

2. Who murders Aaron?

3. What does the man who puts them up hope about the boys in dresses?

4. Who receives Ned's letter and reads it?

5. In what has Ned lost faith?

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