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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parcel 4, "His Life at 16 Years of Age".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While staying with his aunts and uncles, at what does Ned become good?
(a) Breaking in horses.
(b) Stealing horses.
(c) Raising his family.
(d) Plowing the fields.

3. What is one of the worst and most notorious prisons in a land full of bad prisons?
(a) Van Eyke's Land.
(b) Van Dyke's Land.
(c) Van Diemen's Land.
(d) Gaol Prison.

4. Why does Ned begin to hate his uncle?
(a) He is just looking to get into bed with his mother.
(b) He steals from the family.
(c) He is unkind to his mother.
(d) He beats his sisters.

5. Who visits the home, and it is suggested that he makes an advance on Ellen? She responds by slapping him and calling him a coward.
(a) Sergeant O'Neil.
(b) Red Kelly.
(c) Patchy Moran.
(d) Michael O'Connor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the novel start?

2. To what American is Harry Power compared?

3. Why does Ned prepare to do the honorable thing and turn himself in?

4. Why does Ellen attack the banshee with an ax?

5. THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG is what type of genre based around the life of famous bush ranger and Australian folk hero, Ned Kelly?

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