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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21 | Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What marks the end of Ernest Atkinson's political career?
(a) He runs as a candidate for the Liberal Party.
(b) He sneezes in parliament during a speech by King George V.
(c) He opposes the unionization of dock workers.
(d) He offends the mayor of Gildsey.

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

4. What does Ernest Atkinson's maid Jane Shaw think she saw in the old Atkinson townhouse as the brewery was burning?
(a) Helen Atkinson laughing as she watches the brewery collapse from her window.
(b) A black cat with its tail on fire.
(c) The ghost of Sarah Atkinson, shouting.
(d) Ernest Atkinson packing cans of leftover lighting fluid into a satchel.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"

3. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?

4. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?

5. What does Ernest Atkinson do with the three remaining steam ships he owns?

(see the answer key)

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