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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 notice for the first time when Mary struggles with Freddie Parr's prank?
(a) That Dick is interested in Mary and that Mary is interested in Dick.
(b) That Terry Coe is afraid of eels.
(c) That Freddie Parr is a drunkard.
(d) That Mary is ticklish.

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

3. Why does Mary tell Dick that she is pregnant with Freddie Parr's child?
(a) She tells Dick it isn't his child, sees his anger, and wants to protect Tom.
(b) She wants to end her love lessons with Dick.
(c) She wants Dick to make Freddie leave her alone.
(d) She's being silly, but Dick doesn't understand that she is joking.

4. What about the scene at the Lode does NOT remind Tom of the later scene of Freddie Parr's death?
(a) Freddie Parr in the water.
(b) A bottle drifting in the water.
(c) A boat-hook lying on the riverbank.
(d) Dick standing on the wooden bridge.

5. What does Mary fail to explain to Dick properly, with terrible consequences?
(a) That she is truly in love with Dick.
(b) That she is truly in love with Freddie.
(c) How children are actually made.
(d) That she is truly in love with Tom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom Crick mean by the term "Natural History"?

2. What is the question Price asks Tom during their evening spent together that shakes Tom most deeply?

3. 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?

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

5. What does Ernest Atkinson, Tom's grandfather, do that marks the beginning of a long list of scandalous behavior?

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