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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. The headmaster of the school where Tom Crick teaches history thinks Tom should retire from his job. Why?
(a) All of the above.
(b) The headmaster does not like Tom Crick.
(c) History will be eliminated from the curriculum.
(d) Tom Crick has stopped teaching the syllabus.

2. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?
(a) His heckling of young women who worked in the fields.
(b) His ability to smuggle liquor out of an American military base nearby.
(c) His tendency to get into fights with the local barman.
(d) His habit of stealing livestock off the river barges.

3. What does Tom Crick find in the river that he thinks caused the bruise that killed Freddie Parr?
(a) A wrench Dick uses to fix his motorbike.
(b) A cricket bat with an odd indentation and a label that reads F.P.
(c) A beer bottle from the defunct Atkinson brewery.
(d) A metal ball from a slingshot Tom has seen Jack Parr use to kill birds.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?

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

3. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?

4. How does Freddie Parr's father Jack react to the ruling by the court that Freddie's death was an accident?

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

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