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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 term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
(a) Curious.
(b) Eager.
(c) Passive.
(d) Aloof.

2. What did the inquest decide was the cause of Freddie Parr's death?
(a) Freddie was drunk, fell in the water, and could not swim.
(b) Freddie had been robbed and drowned by thugs.
(c) Freddie had committed suicide.
(d) Freddie had been hit on the head with a bottle.

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

4. What is Ernest Atkinson's reaction to the fire?
(a) He shows no reaction and drives off to his country estate.
(b) He frantically alerts the fire brigade, but they are too drunk to help.
(c) He weeps openly on front of the entire town.
(d) He sings loudly with the other revelers as the brewery collapses.

5. What is the name of the student Tom Crick butts heads with the most?
(a) Price.
(b) Jerome.
(c) Dick.
(d) George.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mesmerized King Canute as he was rowed past Ely?

2. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?

3. What does Ernest Atkinson, Tom's grandfather, do that marks the beginning of a long list of scandalous behavior?

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

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

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