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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the wife do with the five pounds?
(a) She returns it.
(b) She spends it.
(c) She keeps it.
(d) She throws it away.

4. What is Ned carrying with him in Jerilderie?
(a) A revolver.
(b) His child.
(c) A book he is writing.
(d) A 58 page letter of the true events.

5. Why does Mary feel she can tell the true story of the Sons of Sieve?
(a) She has heard the story as a young girl.
(b) She is a colonial Irish.
(c) She is related to the Sons of Sieve.
(d) She is true Irish, immigrated, not colonial.

6. What does the man who puts them up hope about the boys in dresses?
(a) They escape.
(b) They survive.
(c) They beat the constables.
(d) They die.

7. What does Ned do as his group leaves town?
(a) He curses the town.
(b) He throws away his letter.
(c) He begins another letter.
(d) He marries the printer's wife.

8. Of what does Constable Flood accuse Dan?
(a) Stealing from a neighbor.
(b) Sleeping with Mary.
(c) Killing a cop.
(d) Stealing the horses.

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

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

11. Where do Ned and his friends retreat?
(a) To a neighboring home.
(b) The local bar in town.
(c) Deeper into the Australian wilderness.
(d) A nearby town.

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

13. Why are they having a difficult time crossing the Murray River?
(a) The paths are blocked by cops.
(b) They can not find a good route.
(c) A landslide has destroyed all good routes.
(d) They need a boat.

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

15. Who intends to kill Ned and Dan?
(a) Steve Hart.
(b) Constable Flood.
(c) George King.
(d) Sgt. Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is his other request?

2. After the fight ensues, what do the police do?

3. How does the gang win allies?

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

5. What happens in this chapter?

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