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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 does the man who put them up call the boys in dresses?

2. How does Thomas Crunow act?

3. What is one of Ned's final requests?

4. What is everywhere in this dream?

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 are "blood letters"?

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

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

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

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

7. What happens once the fight ensues?

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

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

10. What happens to the letter that the politician Cameron receives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ned is compared to Robin Hood.

Part 1) Who is Robin Hood?

Part 2) Compare Ned and Robin Hood.

Part 3) Contrast Ned and Robin Hood.

Essay Topic 2

Folklore and fantasy are woven with reality in this tale.

Part 1) Give examples of folklore or fantasy in this story.

Part 2) Is the fantasy meant to have happened or it is symbolic? Explain.

Part 3) What is the purpose of this fantasy?

Essay Topic 3

Ned Kelly, according to the "Unmarked Prelude," is the author.

Part 1) Who is Ned Kelly?

Part 2) Why is he supposedly writing this story?

Part 3) What might Australians think of this story?

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