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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Mary when she steals the baby?
(a) 63.
(b) 45.
(c) 52.
(d) 15.

2. What is the agreement between Helen and Ernest Atkinson in exchange for Ernest allowing Helen to marry Harry Crick?
(a) That Helen will find a way to assuage Sarah Atkinson's ghost.
(b) That Helen will have Ernest's child.
(c) That Helen will become a nurse at the Kessling Hall asylum.
(d) That Helen will help Ernest commit suicide.

3. What does Dick do when he finds the bottle?
(a) He threatens Tom not to tell anyone about it or he will hurt Tom.
(b) He screams and later says he saw Sarah Atkinson's ghost.
(c) He ties it to the handle of his motorbike with a piece of string.
(d) He hides it in a wooden chest with a lock in the attic.

4. What is it that Tom decides he must find at all cost?
(a) His grandfather's diary.
(b) A full bottle of Coronation Ale.
(c) A key to his mother's chest in the attic.
(d) A way to expose Dick as Freddie's murderer.

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

Short Answer 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...

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

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

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

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

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