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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 do Ned and his group do in Jerilderie?
(a) They steal horses.
(b) They murder the police.
(c) They rob the bank.
(d) They steal cattle.

2. What does the schoolmaster promise?
(a) To write Ned's story.
(b) To protect Ned.
(c) To save Ned.
(d) To murder the police.

3. What happens to the thirty policemen?
(a) They give up and go back to town.
(b) They are saved and sent back to the station.
(c) They are killed.
(d) They cannot find the gang.

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

5. Why is Mary angry at Ned?
(a) He abandons her when she needs him most.
(b) She does not believe his story.
(c) He kills the constable.
(d) She is not sure what to think about the newspaper accounts of the "murders."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ned get into an argument with Steve Hart?

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

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

4. What is Ned carrying with him in Jerilderie?

5. On what does Ned finally give up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Ned when he thanks the man who admits Ned did not steal his horse?

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

3. What happens between Ned and Mary?

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

5. What are "blood letters"?

6. About what does Ned dream?

7. What happens once the fight ensues?

8. How does the gang get split up?

9. What does the sudden abruptness of the chapter suggest?

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

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