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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 Dick do when he finds the bottle?
(a) He ties it to the handle of his motorbike with a piece of string.
(b) He threatens Tom not to tell anyone about it or he will hurt Tom.
(c) He screams and later says he saw Sarah Atkinson's ghost.
(d) He hides it in a wooden chest with a lock in the attic.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the mother's reaction to the Cricks when they return the baby?

4. What do Tom and Mary hope will happen as they drive back to the supermarket to return the child?

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

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