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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 is Ellen's admission that no profit is ever going to show up from the cloth idea?
(a) The cloth has disappeared.
(b) Ellen allows Ned to hired Billy Gray to help on the farm.
(c) She tells Ned that it is just a scheme.
(d) Bill never returns.

2. What is the only work Ned can find?
(a) Splitting posts for the police.
(b) Robbing stage coaches.
(c) Breaking horses.
(d) Working in the fields.

3. At the trail what does Ned refuse to do?
(a) Testify against his family.
(b) Get himself thrown in jail.
(c) Tell the truth.
(d) Speak.

4. Who does Annie marry?
(a) Billy Gray.
(b) Harry Power.
(c) Bill Frost.
(d) Alex Gunn.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Ned and Jem swear a blood oath?

2. What eventually happens to Ned?

3. Of what does Ellen Quinn decide the family should be taking advantage?

4. Why does Ben Gould ask to rent the Kelly's land at one quid a day?

5. What does Ned's mother do to him after his father's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who summons Ned on behalf of Harry Power?

3. How does the novel start?

4. What does Ben do that Ned protects him by doing his prison time?

5. Where does Ned move? Why?

6. How does baby Ellen die?

7. Why does Ned become lawless?

8. Why is Ned amazed to see how easily his mother is bullied by Bill Frost?

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

10. What do Hare and Nicolson show Ned?

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