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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?
(a) When?
(b) Why?
(c) How?
(d) Who?

2. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?
(a) His tendency to get into fights with the local barman.
(b) His heckling of young women who worked in the fields.
(c) His habit of stealing livestock off the river barges.
(d) His ability to smuggle liquor out of an American military base nearby.

3. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?
(a) That she is about to run off to London to hide from her father.
(b) That she saw Freddie attack Dick the night before by the river bridge.
(c) That she is pregnant from Tom, but told Dick it was Freddie's child.
(d) That she pushed Freddie into the river.

4. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?
(a) The Singing Swans of Wash Fen Mere.
(b) The Monk of Sudchurch.
(c) The Headless Ferryman of Staithe.
(d) The Grim Hound of Gargoyle Hall.

5. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
(a) Eager.
(b) Passive.
(c) Aloof.
(d) Curious.

Short Answer Questions

1. The headmaster of the school where Tom Crick teaches history thinks Tom should retire from his job. Why?

2. Tom Crick's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?

3. Where do the Cricks find the body of Freddie Parr?

4. What does Tom Crick find in the river that he thinks caused the bruise that killed Freddie Parr?

5. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the difference between animals and humans?

(see the answer key)

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