1. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?
(a) They both have odd older brothers.
(b) They both grew up without a mother.
(c) They both take the same train to school every day.
(d) They both escape to the ruined windmill together in the afternoons.

2. What is the question Price asks Tom during their evening spent together that shakes Tom most deeply?
(a) Whether Tom has ever considered ending it all.
(b) Whether Tom truly loves Mary.
(c) Whether Tom isn't actually happy about having been fired.
(d) Whether Tom even would want to bring children into the world as it is.

3. How does Harry Crick find out that his son Dick is in love with Mary?
(a) Dick asks how babies are made.
(b) He overhears Dick talking to himself about Mary.
(c) Dick angrily shouts at Tom to stay away from Mary.
(d) Mary's father, Harold Metcalf, asks him to keep Dick away from Mary.

4. What sparks Tom Crick's interest in the mating habits of eels?
(a) Mary tells Tom if he can find out the truth about how eels mate, she'll stop her love lessons with Dick.
(b) His desire to show his own curiosity is as strong as Mary's.
(c) His memory of an eel in Mary's knickers and his need to take his mind off Mary being with Dick.
(d) Mary asks him to look it up because she wants to use it as an example to teach Dick about sex.

5. How does Tom react to Mary's statement that "everything has changed" with Freddie's death.
(a) He says nothing and watches Mary run off into the night.
(b) He tears up lumps of grass and angrily throws them around.
(c) He slaps Mary and shouts,
(d) He laughs uncontrollably.