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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 sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?
(a) Ideological.
(b) Physiological.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Theological.

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

3. What does Tom Crick think the French really celebrate on Bastille Day when they mark the beginning of the French Revolution?
(a) An event that never took place.
(b) The power of the mob over government.
(c) The beginning of the Napoleonic Empire.
(d) An event that was not nearly as important at the time as it is now made out to be.

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

5. Henry Crick, Tom's father, is obsessed with one question about Freddie's death that he repeats over and over again. What is it?
(a) Why did Freddie have to die?
(b) Could he have saved Freddie?
(c) Who killed Freddie?
(d) How did Freddie die?

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?

2. How did Tom's parents meet?

3. What did the inquest decide was the cause of Freddie Parr's death?

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

5. The effects of Ernest's special ale caused all of the following EXCEPT:

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