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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25 | Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ernest Atkinson, Tom's grandfather, do that marks the beginning of a long list of scandalous behavior?
(a) He closes the Atkinson brewery and begins selling soda instead.
(b) He get engaged to a poor journalist's daughter without his parents' permission.
(c) He bathes in a public fountain with some of his Cambridge classmates.
(d) He proclaims that he believes Sarah Atkinson's ghost haunts his bedroom.

2. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?
(a) He sells the Water Transport Company.
(b) He sells Kessling Hall, their estate.
(c) He closes the Atkinson brewery.
(d) He takes a ruinous Grand Tour of Europe.

3. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"
(a) Heraclitus of Ephesus.
(b) Dionysius the Areopagite.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Socrates.

4. What tells Tom that he and Mary must finish their argument quickly because the park is about to close?
(a) The steady stream of dog owners towards the park gates.
(b) The park-keeper's bell.
(c) The gruff voice of the park warden asking others to leave.
(d) The sunset glistening on the duck pond.

5. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?
(a) They both escape to the ruined windmill together in the afternoons.
(b) They both take the same train to school every day.
(c) They both grew up without a mother.
(d) They both have odd older brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which boy is most aggressive about asking the two girls to take their clothes off?

2. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?

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

4. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?

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

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