1. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?
(a) The men were silent and preferred to keep to themselves.
(b) The army served the same ale the Atkinsons brewed in Gildsey.
(c) The pretty girls in the town were disdainful of him.
(d) The mud felt the same and eels swam in the pools.

2. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?
(a) The Monk of Sudchurch.
(b) The Headless Ferryman of Staithe.
(c) The Grim Hound of Gargoyle Hall.
(d) The Singing Swans of Wash Fen Mere.

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

4. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?
(a) His heckling of young women who worked in the fields.
(b) His ability to smuggle liquor out of an American military base nearby.
(c) His tendency to get into fights with the local barman.
(d) His habit of stealing livestock off the river barges.

5. 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) King Arthur and His Noble Knights.
(b) Hereward the Wake.
(c) A Tale of Two Cities.
(d) The Last of the Mohicans.