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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tom dislikes the pike because...
(a) Pikes are killers and scares him.
(b) The pike smells awful.
(c) The pike reminds him of Dick.
(d) Pikes were swarming around Freddie Parr's body.

2. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?
(a) They return rich from an exploration to the Americas.
(b) An ancestor saves Queen Elizabeth, is knighted and given a royal commission.
(c) They invent the steam engine.
(d) They grow the best malt barley for beer brewing in the area.

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

4. What causes the soldiers at the 1915 Royal Cambrideshire Militia parade to stumble out of formation?
(a) Drinking Coronation Ale.
(b) Heckling by Ernest Atkinson.
(c) The sound of a beer barge foghorn.
(d) Helen Atkinson's beauty.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?

3. Which of the boys' bodies does Mary appear to be most interested in?

4. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?

5. What it the brand of Dick's motorbike?

(see the answer key)

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