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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. What does Ellen tell her sons when she picks them up?
(a) She has bought a thousand acre lot.
(b) She needs to sell them to buy a thousand acre lot.
(c) She is remarried.
(d) She loves them.

2. 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) Patchy Moran.
(b) Red Kelly.
(c) Sergeant O'Neil.
(d) Michael O'Connor.

3. What does Ned's mother do to him after his father's death?
(a) She make him become the man of the house against his will.
(b) She gives him away, and he is adopted by an Irish family.
(c) She sells him off to a bush ranger against his will.
(d) She orders him off her property, since he kills his father.

4. Who finds a dress and some face paint?
(a) Patchy.
(b) Ellen.
(c) Red.
(d) Maggie.

5. The creature turns out to be who, covered in thick sheets of iron, but not at the legs?
(a) Ned Kelly.
(b) Jem Kelly.
(c) Cons Flood.
(d) Red Kelly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellen do when she is convinced Bill is gone and will not come back?

2. For what do the police take Ned's father to prison?

3. What is actually happening as Ned dreams about burning in hell?

4. Why does Ned begin to hate his uncle?

5. Why does Ellen have the baby by herself on the table?

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