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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ellen's admission that no profit is ever going to show up from the cloth idea?

2. To what American is Harry Power compared?

3. Why does everyone but his mother, brothers and sisters hate Ned?

4. How is James Whitty released from his deal with the devil?

5. What is Ned amazed to see when he goes home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do people feel about Ned Kelly?

3. Where does Ned work?

4. Where does Ned move? Why?

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

6. What experience do the Kellys have with prison?

7. What do Hare and Nicolson show Ned?

8. How does Ned save his family from the fire?

9. What does Ned do when he sees Dick Shelton drowning in the creek?

10. How does Ned's family respond when he arrives home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The gang, and others, write "blood letters."

Part 1) What are "blood letters"?

Part 2) To whom do they specifically write letters?

Part 3) Are these letters successful?

Essay Topic 2

The Kelly family is not unfamiliar with prison.

Part 1) Who in the Kelly family has been to prison?

Part 2) Of what are many of them guilty?

Part 3) Are they charged with fair sentences? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Ned says he will not leave Australia until his mother is released from prison.

Part 1) Why will he not leave without his mother?

Part 2) What is the Oedipus Complex?

Part 3) Are there any hints in the story to suggest Ned has an Oedipus Complex?

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