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

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

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

4. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?
(a) Liberal Arts.
(b) General Studies.
(c) Geography.
(d) Civics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom Crick's new-coined term "histrionics" refer to?

2. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?

3. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

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

5. What about Mary strikes Tom when he returns from Germany at the end of World War II to marry her?

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