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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 she didn't really hear a voice from God telling her to take the child.
(c) That the mother had told her to take the child.
(d) That she had planned abducting the child for a long time.

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

4. What is the River Tom Crick describes at great length to explain how the landscape of the novel's setting is formed?
(a) The Cam.
(b) The Tyne.
(c) The Thames.
(d) The Ouse.

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

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

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

4. What mesmerized King Canute as he was rowed past Ely?

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

(see the answer key)

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