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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 one of Ned's final requests?
(a) To be set free, for he is innocent.
(b) To see his mother one last time.
(c) To be buried in consecrated ground.
(d) To have his letter sent to Mary.

2. Why can Ned not find a printer?
(a) He has left town.
(b) The printer refuses to come out of his house.
(c) There is no printer in town.
(d) The printer is murdered.

3. Why does Ned get into an argument with Steve Hart?
(a) They disagree all the time.
(b) Ned is in a bad mood.
(c) Steve is unkind.
(d) He is increasingly getting on Ned's nerves.

4. How does he celebrate the birth of his child?
(a) He cries.
(b) He sings a song.
(c) He sends his child a telegram.
(d) Standing on one leg on his horse and shooting guns in the air.

5. Where does the gang go?
(a) A clearing in the forest.
(b) Aaron Sherritt's land.
(c) A stranger's home.
(d) An abandoned cabin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ned forced to shoot, and kill one of the constables?

2. Why are all the men affected by this story?

3. What happens when Joe comes back with the news that Aaron has betrayed them all?

4. What is included in the parcel?

5. How does the gang win allies?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the gang get split up?

3. Where do Ned and his friends prepare for the fight?

4. What makes one wonder if this is a dream at all?

5. What are "blood letters"?

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

7. What happens between Ned and Mary?

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

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

10. How does Thomas Crunow betray the gang?

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