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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 has a heart attack in the court room and dies on the spot.
(b) He curses the judge and accuses Tom Crick of killing Freddie.
(c) He goes to sit on the train tracks to commit suicide, but no train appears.
(d) He walks out of the court room and is never seen again.

2. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
(a) They ran a famous brewery.
(b) They helped drain the marshes by buiding locks and canals.
(c) They represented the Gildsey district in parliament.
(d) They owned a major textile factory.

3. 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 take the same train to school every day.
(c) They both have odd older brothers.
(d) They both grew up without a mother.

4. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?
(a) An ancestor saves Queen Elizabeth, is knighted and given a royal commission.
(b) They grow the best malt barley for beer brewing in the area.
(c) They return rich from an exploration to the Americas.
(d) They invent the steam engine.

5. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?
(a) The Empress of India.
(b) The Grand '51.
(c) The Crimean Victory.
(d) The Golden Jubilee.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?

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