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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. About what is Ned not concerned?

2. For what does George King, an American traveler, who come to ask?

3. How does the novel start?

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

5. Why does Ned believe Harry when he says that Bill bleeds to death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ned feel obligated to turn himself in?

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

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

4. How does the novel start?

5. How does Ned get more jail time for horse thievery?

6. Why is Ned amazed to see how easily his mother is bullied by Bill Frost?

7. What do Hare and Nicolson show Ned?

8. Why does Ned not know his mother has sold him to the bush ranger, Henry Power?

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

10. What happens during the fight between Ned and Wild?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ned's last words are "such is life."

Part 1) What does he mean by this?

Part 2) What does this say about his character?

Part 3) What does this say about poor Irish Australians?

Essay Topic 2

Thomas Crunow betrays the gang.

Part 1) How does he betray them?

Part 2) How does he behave after this betrayal?

Part 3) How does his betrayal affect the gang?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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