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

2. Who hunted in Greenwich Park, where Tom and Mary sit in the evenings with their dog?
(a) King Henry VIII.
(b) Sir Walter Raleigh.
(c) The Duke of Wellington.
(d) Queen Anne.

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

4. How old is Mary when she steals the baby?
(a) 63.
(b) 52.
(c) 45.
(d) 15.

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 screams and later says he saw Sarah Atkinson's ghost.
(c) He threatens Tom not to tell anyone about it or he will hurt Tom.
(d) He ties it to the handle of his motorbike with a piece of string.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Mary tell Tom that she does not tell the judge?

(see the answer key)

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