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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. After Freddie's death, Mary reacts in a drastic way. What does she do?
(a) She locks herself into her father's house for three years.
(b) She runs away to London.
(c) She attempts to commit suicide by drowning herself.
(d) She strangles Tom's favorite kitten.

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

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

4. What does the phrase "in loco parentis" mean?
(a) Placed in parentheses.
(b) Because of parental insanity.
(c) According to the logic of the parents.
(d) In place of the parents.

5. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?
(a) Receiving a history book as a secret gift from Mary when he leaves for the war.
(b) Seeing destroyed German cities after World War II.
(c) Hearing about the murder of six million Jews during the war.
(d) A conversation with a German POW who says history has ended in 1945.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?

3. How did Tom's parents meet?

4. Who hunted in Greenwich Park, where Tom and Mary sit in the evenings with their dog?

5. What is the object that Dick Crick treats like it is a real person?

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