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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?
(a) She is caught on the second floor of her house when it burns down.
(b) She loses her long-awaited first child at its birth.
(c) Her husband hits her in the head in a fit of rage, leaving her a living shell of her former self.
(d) Her husband dies and his relatives take all his money from her, leaving her destitute.

2. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?
(a) That she saw Freddie attack Dick the night before by the river bridge.
(b) That she is about to run off to London to hide from her father.
(c) That she is pregnant from Tom, but told Dick it was Freddie's child.
(d) That she pushed Freddie into the river.

3. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?
(a) St. Mary.
(b) St. Gertrude of the Marshes.
(c) St. Julian of Norwich.
(d) St. Gunnhilda.

4. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?
(a) Sine Qua Non.
(b) Quid Pro Quo.
(c) Ex Aqua Fermentum.
(d) E Pluribus Unum.

5. What does Ernest Atkinson do with the three remaining steam ships he owns?
(a) He names them after his daughter, Helen I, Helen II, and Helen III.
(b) He converts them into pleasure cruise ships.
(c) He sells them to the city of Gildsey for the use of the fire brigade.
(d) He donates them to the army to aid in the war effort.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?

2. Which of the following is NOT in the chest Tom and Dick open in the attic?

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

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

5. What is Dick's reaction to the revelation about his birth?

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