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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. During the festivities for the newly crowned King George V, the New Atkinson Brewery is destroyed. How?
(a) A delivery truck rams one of the main pillars and collapses the building.
(b) An accidental explosion in the boiler room.
(c) An overexcited mob looking for more ale.
(d) A fire nobody can explain.

2. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?
(a) St. Gertrude of the Marshes.
(b) St. Gunnhilda.
(c) St. Julian of Norwich.
(d) St. Mary.

3. Which of the following is NOT a theory that biologists have put forward about how eels reproduce?
(a) Eels create offspring by rubbing against rocks; the young form the shreds of skin that come off.
(b) Eels form out of small parasites that begin their lives in the belly of larger fish.
(c) Eels fertilize their eggs internally and bring forth live young.
(d) Eels are sexless and a born spontaneously out of the mud.

4. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"
(a) Dionysius the Areopagite.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Heraclitus of Ephesus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the agreement between Helen and Ernest Atkinson in exchange for Ernest allowing Helen to marry Harry Crick?

2. Tom Crick's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?

3. How did Tom's parents meet?

4. What is the name of the student club that Price is part of?

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

(see the answer key)

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