1. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?
(a) That she is pregnant from Tom, but told Dick it was Freddie's child.
(b) That she is about to run off to London to hide from her father.
(c) That she saw Freddie attack Dick the night before by the river bridge.
(d) That she pushed Freddie into the river.

2. What is one of the books Tom Crick reads that he finds in the trove of books collected by his great-aunts Louisa and Dora?
(a) A Tale of Two Cities.
(b) King Arthur and His Noble Knights.
(c) The Last of the Mohicans.
(d) Hereward the Wake.

3. What does Ernest Atkinson, Tom's grandfather, do that marks the beginning of a long list of scandalous behavior?
(a) He bathes in a public fountain with some of his Cambridge classmates.
(b) He proclaims that he believes Sarah Atkinson's ghost haunts his bedroom.
(c) He closes the Atkinson brewery and begins selling soda instead.
(d) He get engaged to a poor journalist's daughter without his parents' permission.

4. What does Tom Crick's new-coined term "histrionics" refer to?
(a) Changing history through technology.
(b) Being hysterically enthusiastic about something.
(c) Throwing an angry fit because what has happened is history and cannot be changed.
(d) The combined study of history and economics.

5. On what days does Tom stay at home at night because Dick spends the evenings out with Mary?
(a) Tuesday and Friday.
(b) Wednesday and Saturday.
(c) Wednesday and Sunday.
(d) Monday and Thursday.