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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harry tell Ned has to be done to defend honor?
(a) Bill Frost has to come home.
(b) He has to get married.
(c) He has to kill Bill Frost.
(d) Bill Frost has to be threatened.

2. Who is the school bully who hears a story about Ned's father and passes it around?
(a) Dick Shelton.
(b) Patchy Moran.
(c) Red Kelly.
(d) Michael O'Connor.

3. What do Turk Morrison, Bill Frost, Alex Gunn, and the infamous Harry Power have in common?
(a) They all love Ellen.
(b) They want to help on the farm.
(c) They are criminals.
(d) They are suitors.

4. About what is Ned not concerned?
(a) Having a visit from his mother.
(b) Being released.
(c) Going to court.
(d) Be put back in jail.

5. Who visits the home, and it is suggested that he makes an advance on Ellen? She responds by slapping him and calling him a coward.
(a) Michael O'Connor.
(b) Patchy Moran.
(c) Red Kelly.
(d) Sergeant O'Neil.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what do the police take Ned's father to prison?

2. Who is described as dangerously powerful?

3. What does Kevin the Rat Charmer promise Ellen?

4. Why does the family bring out the good table cloth and candles, and they eat everything Ellen has baked?

5. Who seduces Annie while Alex Gunn is still in prison, and gets her pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Ned say gives up Harry Power to the authorities?

2. Why does Ned become unhappy on the new property?

3. Where does Ned work?

4. What do Hare and Nicolson show Ned?

5. Why does Ned become lawless?

6. What happens during the fight between Ned and Wild?

7. What happens after Ellen slaps Sergeant O'Neil?

8. Why does Ned not know his mother has sold him to the bush ranger, Henry Power?

9. How does the novel start?

10. Why does Ned say he would like nothing more than to have his cuffs removed so they could fight man to man?

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