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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?
(a) He thinks Tom is lying to the class.
(b) He thinks Tom is senile.
(c) He hates school in general, and Tom is easy to pick on.
(d) He thinks history is imaginary and doesn't matter.

2. What does Ernest Atkinson convert his manor Kessling Hall into?
(a) A hospital for the wounded of World War I.
(b) A museum in honor of Sarah Atkinson.
(c) An asylum for the mentally ill.
(d) A school for orphans.

3. 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 Mary is ticklish.
(c) That Freddie Parr is a drunkard.
(d) That Terry Coe is afraid of eels.

4. 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.

5. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?
(a) The Monk of Sudchurch.
(b) The Headless Ferryman of Staithe.
(c) The Singing Swans of Wash Fen Mere.
(d) The Grim Hound of Gargoyle Hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harry Crick hears that Mary told her father that Tom is the father of her aborted child, what does he tell Tom they should do?

2. How did Tom's parents meet?

3. What does Tom Crick think the French really celebrate on Bastille Day when they mark the beginning of the French Revolution?

4. What is in the chest in the attic that Helen bestows upon Dick?

5. What World War I battle was Tom's father injured in and saw his brother killed in earlier in the day?

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