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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens when Joe comes back with the news that Aaron has betrayed them all?
(a) They are forced to flee.
(b) They fight for their position.
(c) They stay where they are.
(d) They hunt him down.

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

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

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

8. The gang is fighting emotional stress, bad weather, disease, and is always just a few steps away from who?
(a) The townspeople.
(b) The trackers.
(c) The bank owners.
(d) Their families.

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

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

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

12. Why is this section hard to keep track of?
(a) It blends dream and reality.
(b) Multiple characters narrate the story.
(c) It is easy to get distracted.
(d) There is so much going on.

13. How does Thomas Crunow act?
(a) He is embarrassed for being such a coward.
(b) He is ashamed of his behavior.
(c) He is so condescending that he thinks nothing of what he has done, or of any of the people who hate him for it.
(d) He is fearful of the gang.

14. What is included in the parcel?
(a) A poem by Ned to his daughter.
(b) The entire script of Henry V.
(c) Ned's blood letter to Aaron.
(d) Two pages of Henry V.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does this section end?

2. What is the "Greta Mob"?

3. What are Ned, Dan, Steve, and Joe?

4. Who murders Aaron?

5. What is his other request?

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