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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. How does Tom react to finding the child Mary has stolen?
(a) He grabs it and they struggle.
(b) He shouts for help.
(c) He immediately calls the police.
(d) He is too dumbfounded to react.

2. What is the lesson about history that Tom Crick draws from the study of eel mating behavior?
(a) The true future of mankind lies West of the Atlantic Ocean.
(b) The eel is much more adapted to life on earth than humans are.
(c) What human beings think of as major historical events makes little difference to other life on earth.
(d) While humans die, some life forms like the eel seem to live forever.

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

4. What does Dick do when he finds the bottle?
(a) He threatens Tom not to tell anyone about it or he will hurt Tom.
(b) He screams and later says he saw Sarah Atkinson's ghost.
(c) He hides it in a wooden chest with a lock in the attic.
(d) He ties it to the handle of his motorbike with a piece of string.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What competition does Mary demand the boys take part in before she takes off her last piece of clothing for the winner?

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

4. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?

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

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