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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What it the brand of Dick's motorbike?
(a) Harley Davidson.
(b) Honda.
(c) Velocette.
(d) Eagle.

2. What is the agreement between Helen and Ernest Atkinson in exchange for Ernest allowing Helen to marry Harry Crick?
(a) That Helen will have Ernest's child.
(b) That Helen will find a way to assuage Sarah Atkinson's ghost.
(c) That Helen will help Ernest commit suicide.
(d) That Helen will become a nurse at the Kessling Hall asylum.

3. What is NOT one of the emblems of by-gone years that Tom includes in his list of memories he wants Mary to recall?
(a) Fireworks over the Fens.
(b) Steam trains.
(c) Two crossed ears of barley on ships' bows.
(d) Fairy tales.

4. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?
(a) Pudding.
(b) Quicksand.
(c) An obese matron.
(d) Phlegm.

5. Which boy is most aggressive about asking the two girls to take their clothes off?
(a) Dick Crick.
(b) Peter Baine.
(c) Tom Crick.
(d) Freddie Parr.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?

2. What is the catastrophe that hits Europe in January 1937?

3. Why does Mary tell Dick that she is pregnant with Freddie Parr's child?

4. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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