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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 39 | Chapter 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tom Crick's response to Mary's claim that God speaks to her.
(a) God is imaginary.
(b) God does not speak anymore.
(c) God never spoke to anyone.
(d) God does not exist.

2. Why does Mary tell Dick that she is pregnant with Freddie Parr's child?
(a) She tells Dick it isn't his child, sees his anger, and wants to protect Tom.
(b) She wants to end her love lessons with Dick.
(c) She wants Dick to make Freddie leave her alone.
(d) She's being silly, but Dick doesn't understand that she is joking.

3. Tom Crick's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?
(a) She stole a baby from a stroller in a supermarket.
(b) She has developed Alzheimer's disease.
(c) Tom Crick hit her over the head and she lost her mind.
(d) She began to scream at odd times of the night.

4. What does Mary fail to explain to Dick properly, with terrible consequences?
(a) How children are actually made.
(b) That she is truly in love with Freddie.
(c) That she is truly in love with Tom.
(d) That she is truly in love with Dick.

5. What does Ernest Atkinson do with the three remaining steam ships he owns?
(a) He names them after his daughter, Helen I, Helen II, and Helen III.
(b) He sells them to the city of Gildsey for the use of the fire brigade.
(c) He converts them into pleasure cruise ships.
(d) He donates them to the army to aid in the war effort.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the question Price asks Tom during their evening spent together that shakes Tom most deeply?

3. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?

4. Price tells Tom Crick of his nightmare about:

5. What does Ernest Atkinson, Tom's grandfather, do that marks the beginning of a long list of scandalous behavior?

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