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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 | Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 pushed Freddie into the river.
(c) That she is pregnant from Tom, but told Dick it was Freddie's child.
(d) That she is about to run off to London to hide from her father.

2. What about Mary strikes Tom when he returns from Germany at the end of World War II to marry her?
(a) How much more beautiful she has become.
(b) How frail and vulnerable she seems.
(c) How much of her old spark and curiosity she has lost.
(d) How tough and independent she has become.

3. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?
(a) They both take the same train to school every day.
(b) They both escape to the ruined windmill together in the afternoons.
(c) They both have odd older brothers.
(d) They both grew up without a mother.

4. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?
(a) A bomber airplane.
(b) The growling of an angry beast.
(c) Machine gun fire.
(d) The thudding of his own heart.

5. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
(a) Aloof.
(b) Passive.
(c) Curious.
(d) Eager.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the historical event that Tom Crick keeps returning to over and over again as he explains that history seems to move in a circle?

3. What did the inquest decide was the cause of Freddie Parr's death?

4. What is the name of the student Tom Crick butts heads with the most?

5. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?

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