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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Mary and Tom waiting for the last time they lie together at the windmill?
(a) For a voice from God telling them what to do.
(b) For Mary to have a miscarriage.
(c) For Dick to find them and kill them.
(d) For the first winter snow.

2. What is the catastrophe that hits Europe in January 1937?
(a) A series of catastrophic floods.
(b) A flu epidemic.
(c) A record cold winter.
(d) Word War II begins.

3. 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 angrily shouts at Tom to stay away from Mary.
(d) Dick asks how babies are made.

4. What does Freddie Parr do to Mary as revenge for setting him up to lose the competition because she knew he couldn't swim?
(a) He rolls her in wet mud until she is totally covered by it.
(b) He steals all her clothes and forces her to walk home naked.
(c) He slips a large eel into her knickers.
(d) He holds her under water until she nearly drowns.

5. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?
(a) He sells Kessling Hall, their estate.
(b) He sells the Water Transport Company.
(c) He takes a ruinous Grand Tour of Europe.
(d) He closes the Atkinson brewery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?

2. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?

3. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?

4. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

5. How does Tom react to Mary's statement that "everything has changed" with Freddie's death.

(see the answer key)

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