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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. How does Freddie Parr's father Jack react to the ruling by the court that Freddie's death was an accident?
(a) He walks out of the court room and is never seen again.
(b) He has a heart attack in the court room and dies on the spot.
(c) He goes to sit on the train tracks to commit suicide, but no train appears.
(d) He curses the judge and accuses Tom Crick of killing Freddie.

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

3. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?
(a) Harold Metcalf.
(b) Freddie Parr.
(c) Dick Crick.
(d) Tom Crick himself.

4. 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?
(a) The Sarajevo Assassination of 1914.
(b) The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
(c) The French Revolution of 1789.
(d) The Norman Invasion of 1066.

5. What is the object that Dick Crick treats like it is a real person?
(a) His barge engine.
(b) His father's radio.
(c) His dead mother's sewing machine.
(d) His motorbike.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?

2. How does Tom eventually arrange to marry Mary, even though her father Harold Metcalf hates him?

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

4. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?

5. Where do the Cricks find the body of Freddie Parr?

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