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

2. What medical condition is Tom afraid that Mary might have?
(a) Bipolar disorder.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Alzheimer's disease.

3. 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 Thames.
(c) The Cam.
(d) The Tyne.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mary tell Tom that she does not tell the judge?

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...

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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