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

2. How does Tom eventually arrange to marry Mary, even though her father Harold Metcalf hates him?
(a) Tom's father Harry asks Harold for permission in the place of his son.
(b) Mary ignores her father and elopes with Tom.
(c) Tom breaks into the Metcalf home at night and runs off with Mary.
(d) Tom comes home a war hero, and Harold Metcalf is too embarrassed to say no.

3. What is the landscape the novel is set in?
(a) The Lake District in northern England.
(b) The coastline of Cornwall.
(c) The Fens in eastern England.
(d) The docks of East London.

4. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?
(a) Quicksand.
(b) Phlegm.
(c) An obese matron.
(d) Pudding.

5. 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 metal ball from a slingshot Tom has seen Jack Parr use to kill birds.
(c) A cricket bat with an odd indentation and a label that reads F.P.
(d) A beer bottle from the defunct Atkinson brewery.

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

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

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

5. Who says, "explaining's a way of avoiding the facts while you pretend to get near to them?"

(see the answer key)

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