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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Drama.
(c) To know that they're right.
(d) To laugh at someone.

3. 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 become a nurse at the Kessling Hall asylum.
(c) That Helen will have Ernest's child.
(d) That Helen will help Ernest commit suicide.

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

5. Where does Tom put the bottle that he found drifting in the water after Freddie Parr's death?
(a) He ties it to the tail pipe of Dick's motorbike.
(b) Out by the road, where he hopes the police constable will see it.
(c) In Dick's room, where Dick would see it.
(d) He accidentally leaves it on the kitchen table.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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