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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ned falls in love with Mary, and what does he buy her as a gift?
(a) A new pair of shoes.
(b) A purse.
(c) A hat.
(d) A dress.

2. What has Ellen been sentenced to?
(a) Three days of solitary confinement.
(b) Three years of community service.
(c) Three years in prison.
(d) Three years of hard labor.

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

4. What are Ned, Dan, Steve, and Joe?
(a) The base of what will become known as the Kelly Gang.
(b) Unorganized and unsure.
(c) Brothers.
(d) Scared and worried.

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

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

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

8. What does Ned get from reading about the Monitor?
(a) The idea to build armor.
(b) A way to create guns.
(c) A great story from the Civil War.
(d) The idea to build a model of the Monitor.

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

10. How does the gang win allies?
(a) They help out by doing field work at harvest time.
(b) They bribe other people in the county.
(c) They let many men into the gang.
(d) They write propaganda for the gang.

11. Who receives Ned's letter and reads it?
(a) The prime minister.
(b) Constable Flood.
(c) Mary.
(d) The politician Cameron.

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

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

14. Who betrays Kelly?
(a) Cons Flood.
(b) Jem.
(c) Aaron.
(d) Thomas Crunow.

15. Why do Ned and a group of close friends move to the country along the Wombat Ridges?
(a) To protect the Kelly boys.
(b) To get away from the Kelly family.
(c) To be away from prying eyes.
(d) To use natural tools to survive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ned not want to go to the United States, even though he has the money?

2. In what has Ned lost faith?

3. What does Mary do to the constables?

4. Where does the gang go?

5. What does the government do with these requests?

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