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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 50.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the mother's reaction to the Cricks when they return the baby?
(a) She shouts for the police to arrest them.
(b) She ignores them and only has eyes for the baby.
(c) She pretends that the baby isn't hers.
(d) She assaults Mary and tries to scratch her eyes out.
2. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?
(a) 99 years.
(b) 92 years.
(c) 37 years.
(d) 68 years.
3. How did Mary's father Harold Metcalf treat Tom's father Harry?
(a) Like a priest treats an unrepentent sinner.
(b) Like an angry father treats his daughter's murderer.
(c) Like a high and mighty squire treats a supplicant serf.
(d) Like a man treats his long-lost brother.
4. Which of the following is NOT a theory that biologists have put forward about how eels reproduce?
(a) Eels are sexless and a born spontaneously out of the mud.
(b) Eels fertilize their eggs internally and bring forth live young.
(c) Eels form out of small parasites that begin their lives in the belly of larger fish.
(d) Eels create offspring by rubbing against rocks; the young form the shreds of skin that come off.
5. Tom thinks that people who focus on ideals like the Declaration of the Rights of Man instead of the details of the French Revolution forget what important fact?
(a) That the revolutionaries were hypocrites.
(b) That no man is an island and no idea exists outside of time.
(c) That the revolution included barricades, bloodshed, and the guillotine.
(d) The importance of the birthday of Louis XVI.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Mary tell Dick that she is pregnant with Freddie Parr's child?
2. What's the "old, old feeling" that Tom Crick tells Price everybody has always felt?
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...
4. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?
5. On what days does Tom stay at home at night because Dick spends the evenings out with Mary?
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