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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ned amazed to see when he goes home?
(a) How easily his mother is bullied by Bill Frost.
(b) His home is a disaster.
(c) How much is mother has changed for the better.
(d) His mother is pregnant.

2. Why does the family bring out the good table cloth and candles, and they eat everything Ellen has baked?
(a) The Harry Power turns himself in.
(b) The charges have been dropped.
(c) Ned has made up his mind.
(d) Ned has decided not to turn himself in.

3. How does Ned's honor result in him going to prison for six months?
(a) He writes a threatening note to the McCormicks.
(b) He is guilty of stealing the McCormicks' horse.
(c) He threatens Cons.
(d) He refuses to turn in Ben.

4. How do the cops and Cons Hall set a trap for Uncle Jimmy and Pat Quinn?
(a) They convince Ned to set it.
(b) They get them to talk during the trial.
(c) They set it up at the jail.
(d) The lure them in using Ned.

5. How are the chapters referred to through out the book?
(a) As parcels
(b) As sections.
(c) As letters.
(d) As years.

6. How old is George King?
(a) About the same age as Red would be.
(b) About the same age as Ned.
(c) About the same age as Bill.
(d) About the same age as Ellen.

7. What do Turk Morrison, Bill Frost, Alex Gunn, and the infamous Harry Power have in common?
(a) They all love Ellen.
(b) They are criminals.
(c) They want to help on the farm.
(d) They are suitors.

8. Of what does Harry inform Ned regarding Bill?
(a) He is having an affair.
(b) He is abusing Ellen.
(c) He has run away.
(d) He is dying.

9. What does Harry claim to Ellen?
(a) He loves her.
(b) He shot Bill.
(c) Bill shot Ned.
(d) He saves Ned.

10. Who is Tom Lloyd?
(a) A thief.
(b) Ned's enemy.
(c) A stranger in town.
(d) Ned's main friend during this time.

11. What does Harry take the time to point out about the wood?
(a) It is so thick as to be bullet proof.
(b) It is a hardwood.
(c) It is easy to cut.
(d) It is very smooth.

12. Why is there nothing Ned can do about his seventeen stolen horses?
(a) His brother, Jem, steals them.
(b) Constable Flood steals them.
(c) No one trusts or believes him.
(d) Ned is in trouble wit h the law.

13. What does Quinn hit Cons in the head with that gashes his head open?
(a) A hammer.
(b) A knife.
(c) A stake.
(d) A spur.

14. Why does Ned's mother call him a fool, and say they would not do the same for him if the situation were reversed?
(a) Ned has decided to turn himself in.
(b) Ned is giving money to his uncles.
(c) Ned is supporting his uncles.
(d) Ned is turning his uncles in.

15. For what do the police take Ned's father to prison?
(a) He is an abusive alcoholic.
(b) Ned admits to killing the calf, trying to save his dad.
(c) He has stolen property.
(d) He has actually killed the calf.

Short Answer Questions

1. THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG is what type of genre based around the life of famous bush ranger and Australian folk hero, Ned Kelly?

2. Why does Ned begin to hate his uncle?

3. To where is Ned transported to receive further interrogation?

4. Ned Kelly takes place in some competitions early such as riding and the long jump that he wins, but what does he realize?

5. Why do the McCormicks lie and say the Kellys work their horse without permission?

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