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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. 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 tough and independent she has become.
(d) How much of her old spark and curiosity she has lost.

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

3. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?
(a) Physiological.
(b) Ideological.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Theological.

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

5. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?
(a) Nature.
(b) Their neighbor's son George.
(c) God.
(d) His brother Dick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the landscape the novel is set in?

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

3. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?

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

5. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?

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