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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 Mary do to the constables?
(a) She turns them in to the higher authorities.
(b) She screams at them.
(c) She puts a curse on them.
(d) She fights them.

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

3. Why is this section hard to keep track of?
(a) There is so much going on.
(b) It is easy to get distracted.
(c) Multiple characters narrate the story.
(d) It blends dream and reality.

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

5. Why are all the men affected by this story?
(a) They are horse people.
(b) They are sad for Mary.
(c) They know the Sons of Sieve.
(d) They feel embarrassed for what they have done.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mary feel she can tell the true story of the Sons of Sieve?

2. Where does the gang find out Aaron is camping out?

3. Why do constables and local politicians arrest twenty-one people for just knowing Ned Kelly?

4. Where does Ned find the information about the Monitor?

5. Why does Ned not take Mrs Goodman up on her offer to dance?

Short Essay Questions

1. About what does Ned dream?

2. What happens to Ned's letter-writing?

3. What happens once the fight ensues?

4. What makes Ned decide he is fed up with being honorable?

5. Why does Ned hear from Mary? How does he react?

6. How does Ned get Mary to believe him about the "murders?"

7. How does Ned start to get involved with the family again?

8. What happens between Ned and Mary?

9. For what does Ned request before he dies? What happens to these requests?

10. What do Dan, Joe, and Ned do?

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