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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. Who says, "explaining's a way of avoiding the facts while you pretend to get near to them?"
(a) Tom Crick.
(b) Lewis Scott.
(c) Mary Crick.
(d) Price.

2. What does Tom compare his father to as every day he sees him trudge back and forth along the canal?
(a) A blind ox.
(b) A chained falcon.
(c) A tethered dog.
(d) A caged wolf.

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

4. Which of the boys' bodies does Mary appear to be most interested in?
(a) Dick Crick.
(b) Tom Crick.
(c) Freddie Parr.
(d) Terry Coe.

5. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?
(a) That she is about to run off to London to hide from her father.
(b) That she saw Freddie attack Dick the night before by the river bridge.
(c) That she is pregnant from Tom, but told Dick it was Freddie's child.
(d) That she pushed Freddie into the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tells Tom that he and Mary must finish their argument quickly because the park is about to close?

2. What secret does Tom reveal to his students about Lewis Scott, the headmaster of the school?

3. What does Tom dream that he considers telling the headmaster about?

4. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

5. What does Ernest Atkinson do with the three remaining steam ships he owns?

(see the answer key)

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