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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parcel 12, "Conception and Construction of Armour".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ned get from reading about the Monitor?
(a) The idea to build armor.
(b) A great story from the Civil War.
(c) A way to create guns.
(d) The idea to build a model of the Monitor.

2. What does Harry tell Ned has to be done to defend honor?
(a) He has to get married.
(b) Bill Frost has to come home.
(c) Bill Frost has to be threatened.
(d) He has to kill Bill Frost.

3. What does the wife do with the five pounds?
(a) She spends it.
(b) She returns it.
(c) She keeps it.
(d) She throws it away.

4. What does Kevin, the Rat Charmer predict?
(a) Problems with rats.
(b) Freedom from rats.
(c) A plague of rats, and baby Ellen dies.
(d) Rats in the barn.

5. Who has a fiery nature, strong temper, and a difficult time dealing with Red Kelly, Ned's father?
(a) Ned's grandmother.
(b) Ned's sister.
(c) Ned's mother.
(d) Ned's aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Ben drive the McCormicks off?

2. What do Joe, Steve, and Dan think is happening to Ned, until the news breaks out about the birth of Ned's child?

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

4. How does Ned respond to the commissioner?

5. What does his mother give Ned to wear for when the police come to take him in?

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