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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 39 | Chapter 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?
(a) Her husband hits her in the head in a fit of rage, leaving her a living shell of her former self.
(b) She loses her long-awaited first child at its birth.
(c) She is caught on the second floor of her house when it burns down.
(d) Her husband dies and his relatives take all his money from her, leaving her destitute.

2. What is the question Price asks Tom during their evening spent together that shakes Tom most deeply?
(a) Whether Tom has ever considered ending it all.
(b) Whether Tom isn't actually happy about having been fired.
(c) Whether Tom even would want to bring children into the world as it is.
(d) Whether Tom truly loves Mary.

3. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?
(a) Quid Pro Quo.
(b) Sine Qua Non.
(c) E Pluribus Unum.
(d) Ex Aqua Fermentum.

4. What does Tom dream that he considers telling the headmaster about?
(a) He dreams of the headmaster drowning in a canal.
(b) He dreams of Price as the Prime Minister of Britain.
(c) He dreams of a woman wailing in a supermarket.
(d) He dreams of Mary as she was when she was 15.

5. What is the name of the ale Ernest Atkinson brews that seems to cause the end of any respect for him in Gildsey because it is too good?
(a) Diamond Jubilee Ale.
(b) Helen Atkinson Ale.
(c) Gildsey Flood Ale.
(d) Coronation Ale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freddie Parr do to Mary as revenge for setting him up to lose the competition because she knew he couldn't swim?

2. Price tells Tom Crick of his nightmare about:

3. What does Ernest Atkinson's maid Jane Shaw think she saw in the old Atkinson townhouse as the brewery was burning?

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

5. Which boy is most aggressive about asking the two girls to take their clothes off?

(see the answer key)

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