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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 do with the three remaining steam ships he owns?
(a) He donates them to the army to aid in the war effort.
(b) He converts them into pleasure cruise ships.
(c) He sells them to the city of Gildsey for the use of the fire brigade.
(d) He names them after his daughter, Helen I, Helen II, and Helen III.

2. Who hunted in Greenwich Park, where Tom and Mary sit in the evenings with their dog?
(a) The Duke of Wellington.
(b) King Henry VIII.
(c) Sir Walter Raleigh.
(d) Queen Anne.

3. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?
(a) Quicksand.
(b) An obese matron.
(c) Pudding.
(d) Phlegm.

4. Which of the following is NOT a theory that biologists have put forward about how eels reproduce?
(a) Eels are sexless and a born spontaneously out of the mud.
(b) Eels create offspring by rubbing against rocks; the young form the shreds of skin that come off.
(c) Eels form out of small parasites that begin their lives in the belly of larger fish.
(d) Eels fertilize their eggs internally and bring forth live young.

5. Which boy is most aggressive about asking the two girls to take their clothes off?
(a) Peter Baine.
(b) Dick Crick.
(c) Tom Crick.
(d) Freddie Parr.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?

2. After Freddie's death, Mary reacts in a drastic way. What does she do?

3. What medical condition is Tom afraid that Mary might have?

4. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?

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

(see the answer key)

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