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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. Where do the Cricks find the body of Freddie Parr?
(a) Sprawled in shrubbery by the side of the Ouse River Road.
(b) Hung from the rafters in the Cricks' barn.
(c) Drifting along the canal at the Atkinson Lock.
(d) Slumped over the table at Jack Parr's house.

2. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?
(a) Eel.
(b) Trout.
(c) Carp.
(d) Salmon.

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

4. What does Tom Crick's new-coined term "histrionics" refer to?
(a) Being hysterically enthusiastic about something.
(b) The combined study of history and economics.
(c) Changing history through technology.
(d) Throwing an angry fit because what has happened is history and cannot be changed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom Crick's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?

2. What is the name of the ale Ernest Atkinson brews that seems to cause the end of any respect for him in Gildsey because it is too good?

3. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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