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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21 | Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Physiological.
(c) Theological.
(d) Ideological.

3. What is Ernest Atkinson's reaction to the fire?
(a) He sings loudly with the other revelers as the brewery collapses.
(b) He shows no reaction and drives off to his country estate.
(c) He weeps openly on front of the entire town.
(d) He frantically alerts the fire brigade, but they are too drunk to help.

4. What does Ernest Atkinson's maid Jane Shaw think she saw in the old Atkinson townhouse as the brewery was burning?
(a) A black cat with its tail on fire.
(b) The ghost of Sarah Atkinson, shouting.
(c) Ernest Atkinson packing cans of leftover lighting fluid into a satchel.
(d) Helen Atkinson laughing as she watches the brewery collapse from her window.

5. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?
(a) A bomber airplane.
(b) The growling of an angry beast.
(c) The thudding of his own heart.
(d) Machine gun fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?

2. What does Tom Crick's new-coined term "histrionics" refer to?

3. What is the name of the student Tom Crick butts heads with the most?

4. What is Henry Crick's occupation?

5. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?

(see the answer key)

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