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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Tom and Mary take the baby back to the car, Tom is afraid that the silent baby is what?
(a) Not real.
(b) Suffering interior injuries.
(c) In a coma.
(d) Dead with shock.

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

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

4. 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 shouts for the police to arrest them.
(d) She assaults Mary and tries to scratch her eyes out.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Ernest Atkinson convert his manor Kessling Hall into?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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