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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. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?
(a) The army served the same ale the Atkinsons brewed in Gildsey.
(b) The pretty girls in the town were disdainful of him.
(c) The men were silent and preferred to keep to themselves.
(d) The mud felt the same and eels swam in the pools.

2. Tom Crick's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?
(a) She began to scream at odd times of the night.
(b) She stole a baby from a stroller in a supermarket.
(c) She has developed Alzheimer's disease.
(d) Tom Crick hit her over the head and she lost her mind.

3. Where do the Cricks find the body of Freddie Parr?
(a) Slumped over the table at Jack Parr's house.
(b) Drifting along the canal at the Atkinson Lock.
(c) Hung from the rafters in the Cricks' barn.
(d) Sprawled in shrubbery by the side of the Ouse River Road.

4. Which part of London does the couple move to once they are married and Tom takes a job as a history teacher?
(a) Notting Hill.
(b) Greenwich.
(c) Knightsbridge.
(d) Chelsea.

5. How does Tom react to Mary's statement that "everything has changed" with Freddie's death.
(a) He slaps Mary and shouts,
(b) He says nothing and watches Mary run off into the night.
(c) He laughs uncontrollably.
(d) He tears up lumps of grass and angrily throws them around.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?

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

4. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?

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

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