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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 one of the books Tom Crick reads that he finds in the trove of books collected by his great-aunts Louisa and Dora?
(a) Hereward the Wake.
(b) The Last of the Mohicans.
(c) A Tale of Two Cities.
(d) King Arthur and His Noble Knights.

2. What is the name of the supermarket that Mary stole the baby from?
(a) Tesco.
(b) Morrisons.
(c) Safeways.
(d) Sainsburys.

3. What about the scene at the Lode does NOT remind Tom of the later scene of Freddie Parr's death?
(a) Dick standing on the wooden bridge.
(b) A bottle drifting in the water.
(c) Freddie Parr in the water.
(d) A boat-hook lying on the riverbank.

4. What are Mary and Tom waiting for the last time they lie together at the windmill?
(a) For Mary to have a miscarriage.
(b) For the first winter snow.
(c) For a voice from God telling them what to do.
(d) For Dick to find them and kill them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Tom decides he must find at all cost?

2. What did Johannes Schmidt conclude about the difference between the European eel and the American eel?

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

4. What about Mary strikes Tom when he returns from Germany at the end of World War II to marry her?

5. Why does Mary tell Dick that she is pregnant with Freddie Parr's child?

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