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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. How does Freddie Parr's father Jack react to the ruling by the court that Freddie's death was an accident?
(a) He goes to sit on the train tracks to commit suicide, but no train appears.
(b) He has a heart attack in the court room and dies on the spot.
(c) He walks out of the court room and is never seen again.
(d) He curses the judge and accuses Tom Crick of killing Freddie.

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

3. How does Tom react to Mary's statement that "everything has changed" with Freddie's death.
(a) He says nothing and watches Mary run off into the night.
(b) He laughs uncontrollably.
(c) He slaps Mary and shouts,
(d) He tears up lumps of grass and angrily throws them around.

4. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?
(a) His habit of stealing livestock off the river barges.
(b) His heckling of young women who worked in the fields.
(c) His tendency to get into fights with the local barman.
(d) His ability to smuggle liquor out of an American military base nearby.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?

2. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?

3. What did Johannes Schmidt conclude about the difference between the European eel and the American eel?

4. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?

5. What is the River Tom Crick describes at great length to explain how the landscape of the novel's setting is formed?

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