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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 the reason Mary gives Tom for trying to seduce Dick in chapter 32?
(a) Her curiosity.
(b) Her wish to make Tom jealous.
(c) Her fear of Dick's anger.
(d) Her desire to make Dick feel less lonely.

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

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

4. What is the name of the Cricks' doctor?
(a) Dr. Fiddler.
(b) Dr. Atlee.
(c) Dr. Higginbotham.
(d) Dr. Bright.

5. Johannes Schmidt, whose theory about eels and their mating habits is considered the most accurate one, thought that eels mate where?
(a) The Gulf of Mexico.
(b) In river springs.
(c) The Sargasso Sea.
(d) The Arctic Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Cricks' golden retriever?

2. What about the scene at the Lode does NOT remind Tom of the later scene of Freddie Parr's death?

3. What is the worst thing Tom Crick can imagine?

4. Where does the old Mary Crick claim she got her child without being pregnant?

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

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