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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 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 boat-hook lying on the riverbank.
(c) Dick standing on the wooden bridge.
(d) A bottle drifting in the water.

2. 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's being silly, but Dick doesn't understand that she is joking.
(d) She wants Dick to make Freddie leave her alone.

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

4. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the difference between animals and humans?
(a) Humans can plan for the future.
(b) Humans tell each other stories.
(c) Humans have the ability to forgive each other.
(d) Animals don't kill each other out of jealousy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the worst thing Tom Crick can imagine?

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

4. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?

5. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?

(see the answer key)

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