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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 know that they're right.
(b) An excuse to hate.
(c) To laugh at someone.
(d) Drama.

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

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

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

5. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"
(a) Heraclitus of Ephesus.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Dionysius the Areopagite.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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