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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. Of what does Constable Flood accuse Dan?

2. Why are the police desperate to arrest anyone they can?

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

4. What is everywhere in this dream?

5. When they return two weeks later, what do they find out?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Ned get the idea to build armor. How successful is the armor?

3. How does Ned get the revelation to rob banks and give the money away?

4. What do the police do to the women and children?

5. What do Dan, Joe, and Ned do?

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

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

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

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

10. For what does Ned request before he dies? What happens to these requests?

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

Mary leaves Ned for the United States.

Part 1) Why does she leave him?

Part 2) Is this a good choice? Why or why not?

Part 3) Does Ned make the correct choice in staying in Australia? Why or why not?

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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