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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 Freddie Parr do to Mary as revenge for setting him up to lose the competition because she knew he couldn't swim?
(a) He holds her under water until she nearly drowns.
(b) He rolls her in wet mud until she is totally covered by it.
(c) He slips a large eel into her knickers.
(d) He steals all her clothes and forces her to walk home naked.

2. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?
(a) God.
(b) His brother Dick.
(c) Their neighbor's son George.
(d) Nature.

3. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?
(a) Her husband dies and his relatives take all his money from her, leaving her destitute.
(b) Her husband hits her in the head in a fit of rage, leaving her a living shell of her former self.
(c) She loses her long-awaited first child at its birth.
(d) She is caught on the second floor of her house when it burns down.

4. What does Tom dream that he considers telling the headmaster about?
(a) He dreams of the headmaster drowning in a canal.
(b) He dreams of Price as the Prime Minister of Britain.
(c) He dreams of Mary as she was when she was 15.
(d) He dreams of a woman wailing in a supermarket.

5. Which part of London does the couple move to once they are married and Tom takes a job as a history teacher?
(a) Knightsbridge.
(b) Greenwich.
(c) Chelsea.
(d) Notting Hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?

2. What competition does Mary demand the boys take part in before she takes off her last piece of clothing for the winner?

3. Henry Crick, Tom's father, is obsessed with one question about Freddie's death that he repeats over and over again. What is it?

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

5. What is the historical event that Tom Crick keeps returning to over and over again as he explains that history seems to move in a circle?

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