1. Ned Kelley, the play is based the local Australian legend of Kelley gang. No Kelley is the notorious Australian outlaw known as Bush rangers. Kelley was a gang leader. He started crimes by stealing horses and _______?
A:) money
B:) castle
C:) cattle
D:) ivory
springline- Correct option: C:) cattle
2. Ned Kelley was born in 1855. His son of a criminal, transported Ireland. Fir he was wanted for horse stealing in 1877 (22 years). He escaped New South Wales There he joins brother ______?
A:) James
B:) kate
C:) Mackin
D:) Dan
springline- Correct option: D:) Dan
3. Ned Kelley: The play begins in Feb 18, 1879. The play is divided into for acts. In the beginning there is a small country bank. Who was the young clerk and he wants to relax in an open air in the meaning?
A:) Dan
B:) Mackin
C:) Steve Hart
D:) Harry
springline- Correct option: B:) Mackin
4. Stewart and Coen maintained close friendships with several contemporary artists and literati including Norman Lindsay, Kenneth Slessor, Nancy Keesing, David Campbell, Rosemary Dobson and her publisher husband Alec Bolton, and publisher Beatrice Davis. In addition to his literary pursuits, Stewart was a keen fisherman and often went trout fishing with his friend, the poet ________?
A:) Norman Lindsay
B:) Nancy
C:) David Campbell
D:) Rosemary Dobson
springline- Correct option: C:) David Campbell
5. Ned Kelley: Mackin’s is senior clerk, Living, wants him to do his work. But Mackin argues. He imagines himself as Ned Kelley suddenly the Kelley gang enters. Who the righthand man of Ned Kelley enters the bank through the back door?
A:) Joe Byrne
B:) Dan
C:) Kate
D:) Steve Hart
springline- Correct option: A:) Joe Byrne
6. Ned Kelley: Both Joe and Ned Kelley drag him and get the keys. They loot the bank. They insulted living during looting In the bank, there were many important citizens were drapped. They were taken to the bar of the Royal Hotel. The Ked gang orders ________?
A:) gun
B:) horse
C:) cox
D:) girls
springline- Correct option: C:) cox
7. Ned Kelley enters. Kelly and his right hand are dressed in police uniform. Living does not known with is happened. The Kelley' gang ask for the manager and demand the Keys. Who is the manager is in de bathroom?
A:) Aaron
B:) Jerilderie
C:) Harry Power
D:) Tarleton
springline- Correct option: D:) Tarleton
8. Ned Kelley: The ‘Ked’ gang are not cruel though they tease. Joe is attracted by the Bar maid. Gribble, the village parson enters He does not know what is happening. ‘Ked’ gang tease him. He is not allowed to speak. Ked’ gang earlier killed policemen Kennedy. How many policemen killed by Ked Gang?
A:) Two
B:) Three
C:) four
D:) one
springline- Correct option: B:) Three
9. Douglas Stewart was an Australian poet and play writer. As a playwrite, His famous verse play is the fire on the snow. He wrote his next verse planed Kelley. In 1942, he wrote the romantic comedy, _______?
A:) the Golden love
B:) Operation clam
C:) Springtime in Taranaki
D:) The Dallas Dilemma
springline- Correct option: A:) the Golden love
10. Ned Kelley: In the beginning of the act II, there is a hut in the hill area. It was in June 1880. The hut was dirty and un cleaned. The Ked' gang is living in fear Joe Byrne, the Irish man is the key figure in the gang and Ned Kelley its brain. Joe is a ____
A:) poet
B:) artist
C:) dancer
D:) singer
springline- Correct option: A:) poet
11. Ned Kelley:Joe declares that he is tired of restless life. When the act opens, Joe and Hart are talking. Dan with gone out. Ned Kelley is sitting on the rock. They are with their girl friends. They speak about _____?
A:) Jerilderie
B:) policeman
C:) Aaron sherriot
D:) Harry power
springline- Correct option: C:) Aaron sherriot
12. Ned Kelley: Aaron became a police informer. The police announced the reward of 8000 quid (pounds) for information about Ked gang. Joe loves Aaron, but Hart is against him. Hart remembers the messengers killing in stringy back creek. But Who asks him not to think of it?
A:) Aaron
B:) Joe
C:) Dan
D:) James
springline- Correct option: B:) Joe
13. Ned Kelley: The Ned Kelley comes and joins the conversation. Who enter and he describes the comic encounter with S.P. The police superientent escaped from him, and Ned Kelley declares that they are living in fear and He is afraid that they will be caught and ganged?
A:) Dan
B:) Joe
C:) Hart
D:) Robin Hood
springline- Correct option: A:) Dan
14. Ned Kelly, byname of Edward Kelly, (born June 1855, Beveridge, Victoria, Australia—died November 11, 1880, Melbourne), most famous of the bushrangers, Australian rural outlaws of the 19th century. When Kelly shot and injured a policeman who was trying to arrest his brother, Dan Kelly, for horse theft?
A:) 1877
B:) 1878
C:) 1879
D:) 1880
springline- Correct option: A:) 1877
15. Ned Kelley: Roo tells them that Aaron became the police informer. They will be surrounded the traps: Whose mother one day found Aaron , and he is sceeping on the ground covered by blanket?
A:) Roo
B:) Joe
C:) Dan
D:) Jim
springline- Correct option: B:) Joe
16. Ned Kelley: Aaron gives due to the policeman but the 'Ked' men plan to entered the train at lonely spot between Benalia Peech Worth. Then they would attack the people. They close Glenrowan as a spot, to carry out the plan. Dan and Joe Warin Ned Kelley that it is a dangerous plan. After some time, Joe is happy to join Ned Kelley. Their First plan is to kill _______?
A:) Aaron
B:) Rita
C:) Brickey
D:) Jack Lloyd
springline- Correct option: A:) Aaron
17. Ned Kelley: Aaron, his wife , his mother Mrs. Barry and Irish policeman are in the hut. After some time, Aaron with gone out ,The three policeman are sleeping in only bedroom, Who is worried about her hubby and she fears that Ned Kelley' gang would kill him?
A:) Allen Lowry
B:) Jack
C:) Mrs. Barry
D:) Rita
springline- Correct option: D:) Rita
18. Ned Kelley: Aaron is guilty. Aaron comes and wants to hide in the Bushes. Rita goes with him but Aaron changes his mind. The police already forced him to track 'Ked' gang. In the darkness, Joe enters the hut. He knocks at the door and calls him to open the door. He comes out and he shot dead by Joe. Ned Kelley and Who are removing the rails at midnight?
A:) Tom
B:) Hart
C:) Joe
D:) Kate
springline- Correct option: B:) Hart
19. Ned Kelley: The act opens in Mrs.Jones hotel at Gleurowan. There is a laughter and shouting Joe sings de song of the wild colonial boy. It is a popular song about the bush rangers, _______?
A:) Jack Doocan
B:) Robin Hood
C:) Allen Lowry
D:) James Whitty
springline- Correct option: A:) Jack Doocan
20. Ned Kelley: Key’ gang keeps do twelve men and women of Glenrowan as hostagers Reardon, the gang man is speaking as poetic justice. Joe stuffs his car with song. Dan and Hart are waiting for the train. Joe is again singing. The school master, Curnow is begging 'K' gang to allow him to go. He says that he should take his sick wife home. Ned Kelley is show mercy on him, but Who is suspicious?
A:) Tom
B:) Joe
C:) Hart
D:) Dan
springline- Correct option: B:) Joe
21. Ned Kelley: The train's wlasitle sound is heard policemen surround the bar. Ned Kelley goes out alone for the encounter. But Joe is unwilling but he is shot dead peeping out of the window. Hart want to become approval. Dan threatens to shot him. Ned Kelley is dressed in metal armour but he is shot dead. Hart and Who are forgotten?
A:) Joe
B:) Kate
C:) Dan
D:) Tom
springline- Correct option: C:) Dan
22. Douglas Stewart was a major twentieth century Australian poet, as well as short story writer, essayist and literary editor. He published 13 collections of poetry, verse plays including the well-known Fire on the Snow, many short stories and critical essays, and biographies of Norman Lindsay and Kenneth Slessor. He also edited several poetry anthologies. How many verse plays he wrote?
A:) 5
B:) 6
C:) 7
D:) 8
springline- Correct option: A:) 5
23. Douglas Stewart’s greatest contribution to Australian literature came from his 20 years as literary editor of The Bulletin, his 10 years as a publishing editor with Angus & Robertson, and his lifetime support of Australian writers. Who has described Stewart as ‘the greatest all-rounder of modern Australian literature?
A:) Tim Winton
B:) Geoffrey Serle
C:) Miles Franklin
D:) Peter Carey
springline- Correct option: B:) Geoffrey Serle
24. Douglas Stewart then returned to New Zealand where he continued to worked as a journalist, becoming editor of the Stratford Evening Post. In 1937, he travelled to England, employed as a pantry man on the ‘Doric Star’. Once in England, however, he was unable to find work as a journalist, and so he worked for a short time as a barman at the ‘Churchill Arms’ in Knightsbridge. He also met writers Edmund Blunden and ______?
A:) Thomas Keneally
B:) Richard Flanagan
C:) John Cowper Powys
D:) Patrick White
springline- Correct option: C:) John Cowper Powys
25. Douglas Stewart : After his university studies, Stewart worked as a journalist in New Zealand in the early 1930s. In 1936, he published his first volume of poems, Green Lions, before moving permanently to Australia in 1938 to become Assistant Literary Editor of The Bulletin. Two years later he was appointed Literary Editor of its ‘Red Page’, and he retained this position for the next ________?
A:) twenty years
B:) ten years
C:) Eight years
D:) five years
springline- Correct option: A:) twenty years
26. Douglas Stewart: In the same year he completed his next verse play, Ned Kelly, which won an open ABC competition in 1941, and in 1942 he won again with The Golden Lover, which was a romantic comedy, a change from the previous two heroic tragedies. Ned Kelly, written for theatre, was first performed on radio in ____?
A:) 1941
B:) 1942
C:) 1943
D:) 1944
springline- Correct option: C:) 1943
27. David Campbell's first poem, Harry Pearce, was published in The Bulletin in 1942, but he and Stewart did not meet until the last year of the war. The two poets maintained a correspondence over a long period, from 1946–1979. The main subject of their correspondence was poetry. They discussed fellow Australian writers such as Judith Wright, R. D. Fitzgerald and ____?
A:) Francis Webb
B:) Alexis Wright
C:) Christina Stead
D:) Matthew Reilly
springline- Correct option: A:) Francis Webb
28. Douglas Stewart: He married the painter Margaret Coen in 1945, and they had a daughter, Meg. They lived in a flat in the city of Sydney until 1953 when they moved to St Ives in the northern suburbs. It was still rural countryside then, and close to the natural beauty of Ku-ring-gai Chase. That year he won a UNESCO travelling scholarship to Europe and so the family of three spent eight months on the Continent in ______?
A:) 1962
B:) 1963
C:) 1954
D:) 1957
springline- Correct option: C:) 1954
29. Douglas Stewart: Stewart lived in Australia in 1933 for a short time, working as a free-lance journalist. He then returned to New Zealand where he continued to worked as a journalist, becoming editor of the Stratford Evening Post. In 1937, he travelled to England, employed as a pantry man on the ______?
A:) Rock star
B:) Doric Star
C:) Gangster
D:) Party star
springline- Correct option: B:) Doric Star
30. Which is a verse play by Douglas Stewart about the Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica by Robert Falcon Scott and It premiered on ABC radio on 6 June 1941 to great acclaim?
A:) But No Brass Funnel
B:) The Fire on the Snow
C:) Operation Claim
D:) The Dallas Dilemma
springline- Correct option: B:) The Fire on the Snow