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

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

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

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

5. 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 hides it in a wooden chest with a lock in the attic.
(c) He screams and later says he saw Sarah Atkinson's ghost.
(d) He threatens Tom not to tell anyone about it or he will hurt Tom.

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 mesmerized King Canute as he was rowed past Ely?

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

4. At the end of chapter 44, Tom Crick decides that what people really want to know isn't truth. What they really want is...

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

(see the answer key)

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