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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does this section end?
(a) Rather abruptly.
(b) It slows to a stop.
(c) It fades away.
(d) It becomes silent.
2. 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.
3. Where do Ned and his friends retreat?
(a) To a neighboring home.
(b) A nearby town.
(c) The local bar in town.
(d) Deeper into the Australian wilderness.
4. Where is Ned when the constables close in on Dan, Steve, and Joe?
(a) He is with the constables.
(b) He is away.
(c) He is in hiding.
(d) He is injured.
5. How does he celebrate the birth of his child?
(a) He sends his child a telegram.
(b) He cries.
(c) Standing on one leg on his horse and shooting guns in the air.
(d) He sings a song.
6. 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 sends George to the United States to stay with relatives.
(b) She stays with him.
(c) She leaves.
(d) She tries to get Ned's mother released from prison.
7. What does Aaron Skilling do to Joe?
(a) He injures him.
(b) He embarrasses him.
(c) He gets him high on the opium.
(d) He fights him.
8. Barry refuses Ned and Dan's bargain, and what does he call them?
(a) Losers.
(b) Louts.
(c) Miscreants.
(d) Dead men.
9. Who is Mary Hearn?
(a) A neighbor.
(b) Alex's sister.
(c) Ned's daughter's mother.
(d) Ned's cousin.
10. What does the man who put them up call the boys in dresses?
(a) Embarrrassing to him.
(b) Disgraces to bush rangers.
(c) True Irishmen.
(d) Good Irish boys.
11. Why is there no mention of survivors?
(a) It gives the feeling that the hostages may have been burned to prevent the story from getting out.
(b) All the survivors are in hiding.
(c) They are all captured by the police.
(d) The only important characters are those that have been murdered.
12. On what does Ned finally give up?
(a) His gang.
(b) Mary.
(c) Writing letters.
(d) Bank robbery.
13. What does Mary do when she sees the boys show up in dresses?
(a) She faints.
(b) She cries.
(c) She beats him up.
(d) She laughs.
14. From whom does George King learn to steal horses?
(a) Native Americans.
(b) Natives in the Outback.
(c) Local Australians.
(d) His father.
15. Why are all the men affected by this story?
(a) They know the Sons of Sieve.
(b) They feel embarrassed for what they have done.
(c) They are horse people.
(d) They are sad for Mary.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Ned do as his group leaves town?
2. What are Ned, Dan, Steve, and Joe?
3. What happens in this chapter?
4. Who betrays Kelly?
5. What does the schoolmaster rip out for Ned to keep?
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