1. 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 Mary as she was when she was 15.
(c) He dreams of Price as the Prime Minister of Britain.
(d) He dreams of a woman wailing in a supermarket.

2. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
(a) They owned a major textile factory.
(b) They ran a famous brewery.
(c) They helped drain the marshes by buiding locks and canals.
(d) They represented the Gildsey district in parliament.

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

4. What does Ernest Atkinson's maid Jane Shaw think she saw in the old Atkinson townhouse as the brewery was burning?
(a) The ghost of Sarah Atkinson, shouting.
(b) A black cat with its tail on fire.
(c) Helen Atkinson laughing as she watches the brewery collapse from her window.
(d) Ernest Atkinson packing cans of leftover lighting fluid into a satchel.

5. The effects of Ernest's special ale caused all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) The mass desertion of the army troops stationed in the town to the taverns.
(b) Wild improvisations by the marching band.
(c) The premature setting off of the evening's fireworks.
(d) The near-collision of two pleasure boats whose steersmen had drunk too much.