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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 full bottle of Coronation Ale.
(b) His grandfather's diary.
(c) A key to his mother's chest in the attic.
(d) A way to expose Dick as Freddie's murderer.

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"

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

4. What medical condition is Tom afraid that Mary might have?

5. What causes the soldiers at the 1915 Royal Cambrideshire Militia parade to stumble out of formation?

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