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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. Why does Ned take an alternate way to school?
(a) He is meeting a friend.
(b) To avoid teasing.
(c) He wants an adventure.
(d) The road is destroyed.

2. Although he is young, what does Ned quickly prove?
(a) He can work as hard as any man.
(b) He is a better man than his father ever was.
(c) He loves his family.
(d) He is good with horses.

3. Why does Ned get into a huge fight with a farmer?
(a) He insults Ned's sister Annie.
(b) He makes a very crude reference about Bill Frost and Ned's mother having intercourse.
(c) He tries to steal Ned's horse.
(d) He attempts to take Ned's and Henry's souvenirs from their latest stagecoach robbery.

4. To what does Ned say he becomes addicted?
(a) Danger.
(b) Murder.
(c) Stealing.
(d) His mother's pie.

5. What is the only work Ned can find?
(a) Splitting posts for the police.
(b) Working in the fields.
(c) Robbing stage coaches.
(d) Breaking horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the novel start?

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

3. Harry Power says, "forget your mamma. There ain't no happiness for neither of us at Eleven Mile Creek." What is significant about this statement?

4. Who is the school bully who hears a story about Ned's father and passes it around?

5. Who seduces Annie while Alex Gunn is still in prison, and gets her pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What experience do the Kellys have with prison?

2. What do the Kellys do when Ellen decides they should take advantage of the Duffy Land Act?

3. Uncle James makes a good impression on the family, but how does that change?

4. How are Ned's plans changed once he hears about Bill's affair?

5. What does Ben do that Ned protects him by doing his prison time?

6. What story does Henry tell Ned about James Whitty?

7. How do people feel about Ned Kelly?

8. How is Bill similar to Red?

9. Where does Ned work?

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

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