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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that Tom decides he must find at all cost?
(a) A way to expose Dick as Freddie's murderer.
(b) A full bottle of Coronation Ale.
(c) His grandfather's diary.
(d) A key to his mother's chest in the attic.

2. Where does Tom put the bottle that he found drifting in the water after Freddie Parr's death?
(a) He accidentally leaves it on the kitchen table.
(b) He ties it to the tail pipe of Dick's motorbike.
(c) Out by the road, where he hopes the police constable will see it.
(d) In Dick's room, where Dick would see it.

3. What causes the soldiers at the 1915 Royal Cambrideshire Militia parade to stumble out of formation?
(a) The sound of a beer barge foghorn.
(b) Heckling by Ernest Atkinson.
(c) Helen Atkinson's beauty.
(d) Drinking Coronation Ale.

4. What is the mother's reaction to the Cricks when they return the baby?
(a) She pretends that the baby isn't hers.
(b) She shouts for the police to arrest them.
(c) She ignores them and only has eyes for the baby.
(d) She assaults Mary and tries to scratch her eyes out.

5. 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 didn't really hear a voice from God telling her to take the child.
(d) That she had seen the mother pinch the child angrily.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the agreement between Helen and Ernest Atkinson in exchange for Ernest allowing Helen to marry Harry Crick?

2. At the end of chapter 44, Tom Crick decides that what people really want to know isn't truth. What they really want is...

3. What mesmerized King Canute as he was rowed past Ely?

4. What is the River Tom Crick describes at great length to explain how the landscape of the novel's setting is formed?

5. What does Dick do when he finds the bottle?

(see the answer key)

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