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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary tell Tom that she does not tell the judge?
(a) That the mother had told her to take the child.
(b) That she had planned abducting the child for a long time.
(c) That she had seen the mother pinch the child angrily.
(d) That she didn't really hear a voice from God telling her to take the child.

2. What does Ernest Atkinson convert his manor Kessling Hall into?
(a) A school for orphans.
(b) An asylum for the mentally ill.
(c) A museum in honor of Sarah Atkinson.
(d) A hospital for the wounded of World War I.

3. What tells Tom that he and Mary must finish their argument quickly because the park is about to close?
(a) The gruff voice of the park warden asking others to leave.
(b) The steady stream of dog owners towards the park gates.
(c) The sunset glistening on the duck pond.
(d) The park-keeper's bell.

4. 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) Drama.
(c) An excuse to hate.
(d) To know that they're right.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Mary when she steals the baby?

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

4. What is it that Tom decides he must find at all cost?

5. Where does Tom put the bottle that he found drifting in the water after Freddie Parr's death?

(see the answer key)

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