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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parcel 8, "24 Years".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kevin the Rat Charmer promise Ellen?
(a) To sell Ellen cats who will kill the rats.
(b) To charm all the rats away for payment.
(c) To bring rats to Ellen's home, unless she pays him.
(d) To charm all the rats away.

2. Why is the age of twelve significant for Ned?
(a) It is the age he is when his father dies.
(b) It is the age he is when he quits school.
(c) It is the age he is when he begins acting like Robin Hood.
(d) It is the age he is when he moves away from home.

3. Ned falls in love with Mary, and what does he buy her as a gift?
(a) A new pair of shoes.
(b) A purse.
(c) A dress.
(d) A hat.

4. What is Ellen's admission that no profit is ever going to show up from the cloth idea?
(a) Ellen allows Ned to hired Billy Gray to help on the farm.
(b) Bill never returns.
(c) She tells Ned that it is just a scheme.
(d) The cloth has disappeared.

5. How does Ned respond to the commissioner?
(a) He would like to fight man to man.
(b) He is innocent and wants to be set free.
(c) He is ill.
(d) He is guilty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ned want to kill George King?

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

3. Why does Ned's mother call him a fool, and say they would not do the same for him if the situation were reversed?

4. Who does Annie marry?

5. Ned dislikes Bill. How does Bill feel about Ned?

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