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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 is the object that Dick Crick treats like it is a real person?
(a) His dead mother's sewing machine.
(b) His barge engine.
(c) His motorbike.
(d) His father's radio.

2. What is the great mystery about the eel that nobody has been able to explain?
(a) What family of species the eel really belongs to.
(b) How long eels have existed.
(c) Where and how eels mate.
(d) How eels can live both in salt water and fresh water.

3. During the festivities for the newly crowned King George V, the New Atkinson Brewery is destroyed. How?
(a) A delivery truck rams one of the main pillars and collapses the building.
(b) An overexcited mob looking for more ale.
(c) A fire nobody can explain.
(d) An accidental explosion in the boiler room.

4. 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.

5. What game are Tom Crick, Freddie Parr, Peter Baine, and Terry Coe playing with Mary Metcalf and Shirley Alford on the banks of the Hockwell Lode as Dick Crick looks on?
(a) A coy game of Show Me Yours, I'll Show You Mine.
(b) Underwater hide and seek.
(c) They ask each other silly riddles.
(d) A raucous game of catch.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?

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

3. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?

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

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

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