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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33 | Chapter 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?
(a) Machine gun fire.
(b) A bomber airplane.
(c) The thudding of his own heart.
(d) The growling of an angry beast.

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

3. What marks the end of Ernest Atkinson's political career?
(a) He offends the mayor of Gildsey.
(b) He runs as a candidate for the Liberal Party.
(c) He sneezes in parliament during a speech by King George V.
(d) He opposes the unionization of dock workers.

4. What sparks Tom Crick's interest in the mating habits of eels?
(a) His memory of an eel in Mary's knickers and his need to take his mind off Mary being with Dick.
(b) His desire to show his own curiosity is as strong as Mary's.
(c) Mary tells Tom if he can find out the truth about how eels mate, she'll stop her love lessons 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. What about the scene at the Lode does NOT remind Tom of the later scene of Freddie Parr's death?
(a) A bottle drifting in the water.
(b) Freddie Parr in the water.
(c) Dick standing on the wooden bridge.
(d) A boat-hook lying on the riverbank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tom Crick's response to this revelation?

2. What does Ernest Atkinson do with the three remaining steam ships he owns?

3. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?

4. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?

5. 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?

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