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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the mother's reaction to the Cricks when they return the baby?
(a) She pretends that the baby isn't hers.
(b) She shouts for the police to arrest them.
(c) She assaults Mary and tries to scratch her eyes out.
(d) She ignores them and only has eyes for the baby.

2. What is it that Tom decides he must find at all cost?
(a) A key to his mother's chest in the attic.
(b) His grandfather's diary.
(c) A way to expose Dick as Freddie's murderer.
(d) A full bottle of Coronation Ale.

3. At the end of chapter 44, Tom Crick decides that what people really want to know isn't truth. What they really want is...
(a) To laugh at someone.
(b) An excuse to hate.
(c) Drama.
(d) To know that they're right.

4. What mesmerized King Canute as he was rowed past Ely?
(a) The beauty of the girls washing laundry near the riverbank.
(b) The singing of the swans in the fens.
(c) The chanting of the monks at the Ely monastery.
(d) The sound of the sea breeze as it rushed through the reeds.

5. How old is Mary when she steals the baby?
(a) 45.
(b) 15.
(c) 52.
(d) 63.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ernest Atkinson convert his manor Kessling Hall into?

2. What medical condition is Tom afraid that Mary might have?

3. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"

4. When Tom and Mary take the baby back to the car, Tom is afraid that the silent baby is what?

5. Who hunted in Greenwich Park, where Tom and Mary sit in the evenings with their dog?

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