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

2. What does Tom Crick find in the river that he thinks caused the bruise that killed Freddie Parr?
(a) A beer bottle from the defunct Atkinson brewery.
(b) A cricket bat with an odd indentation and a label that reads F.P.
(c) A wrench Dick uses to fix his motorbike.
(d) A metal ball from a slingshot Tom has seen Jack Parr use to kill birds.

3. Who says, "explaining's a way of avoiding the facts while you pretend to get near to them?"
(a) Tom Crick.
(b) Mary Crick.
(c) Price.
(d) Lewis Scott.

4. 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.

5. What is the question Price asks Tom during their evening spent together that shakes Tom most deeply?
(a) Whether Tom isn't actually happy about having been fired.
(b) Whether Tom truly loves Mary.
(c) Whether Tom has ever considered ending it all.
(d) Whether Tom even would want to bring children into the world as it is.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freddie Parr's father Jack react to the ruling by the court that Freddie's death was an accident?

2. Johannes Schmidt, whose theory about eels and their mating habits is considered the most accurate one, thought that eels mate where?

3. What is the historical event that Tom Crick keeps returning to over and over again as he explains that history seems to move in a circle?

4. How does Harry Crick find out that his son Dick is in love with Mary?

5. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?

(see the answer key)

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