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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) Heraclitus of Ephesus.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Dionysius the Areopagite.

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

3. At the end of chapter 44, Tom Crick decides that what people really want to know isn't truth. What they really want is...
(a) Drama.
(b) To know that they're right.
(c) An excuse to hate.
(d) To laugh at someone.

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

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

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

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

4. What does Dick do when he finds the bottle?

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

(see the answer key)

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