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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) An excuse to hate.
(b) To laugh at someone.
(c) Drama.
(d) To know that they're right.

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

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

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 Tyne.
(b) The Thames.
(c) The Cam.
(d) The Ouse.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Tom and Mary take the baby back to the car, Tom is afraid that the silent baby is what?

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

4. What medical condition is Tom afraid that Mary might have?

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

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