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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Tom and Mary hope will happen as they drive back to the supermarket to return the child?
(a) That the mother will let them keep the child.
(b) That the mother will have simply disappeared.
(c) That they can find the mother and return the child quietly.
(d) That the mother will not have noticed that the child has gone.

2. 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 sound of the sea breeze as it rushed through the reeds.
(d) The singing of the swans in the fens.

3. What is the River Tom Crick describes at great length to explain how the landscape of the novel's setting is formed?
(a) The Thames.
(b) The Cam.
(c) The Ouse.
(d) The Tyne.

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

5. 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 ignores them and only has eyes for the baby.
(c) She assaults Mary and tries to scratch her eyes out.
(d) She shouts for the police to arrest them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tells Tom that he and Mary must finish their argument quickly because the park is about to close?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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