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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Mary tell Tom that she does not tell the judge?
(a) That the mother had told her to take the child.
(b) That she had seen the mother pinch the child angrily.
(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.

4. What causes the soldiers at the 1915 Royal Cambrideshire Militia parade to stumble out of formation?
(a) Drinking Coronation Ale.
(b) Heckling by Ernest Atkinson.
(c) Helen Atkinson's beauty.
(d) The sound of a beer barge foghorn.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is it that Tom decides he must find at all cost?

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

4. What is the River Tom Crick describes at great length to explain how the landscape of the novel's setting is formed?

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

(see the answer key)

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