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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 does Freddie Parr do to Mary as revenge for setting him up to lose the competition because she knew he couldn't swim?
(a) He slips a large eel into her knickers.
(b) He holds her under water until she nearly drowns.
(c) He rolls her in wet mud until she is totally covered by it.
(d) He steals all her clothes and forces her to walk home naked.

2. What does Tom Crick mean by the term "Natural History"?
(a) The history of animals, plants, and other life forms.
(b) History as it would progress if humans didn't attempt to interfere in it constantly.
(c) The study of human nature through stories to see what human beings truly are like.
(d) The history of the world as seen through the lense of science.

3. What is Tom Crick's response to this revelation?
(a) He reads history books when Dick is out wooing Mary.
(b) He turns Freddie Parr in to the police constable.
(c) He starts flirting intensely with Mary to outdo all the other boys.
(d) He begins to be afraid of Dick.

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

5. Tom thinks that people who focus on ideals like the Declaration of the Rights of Man instead of the details of the French Revolution forget what important fact?
(a) That no man is an island and no idea exists outside of time.
(b) That the revolutionaries were hypocrites.
(c) The importance of the birthday of Louis XVI.
(d) That the revolution included barricades, bloodshed, and the guillotine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Tom's parents meet?

2. What is NOT one of the grotesque details Tom Crick lists to show that the French Revolution should better be remembered for its guillotines than for the festive spirit of the French on July 14th, when they "prefer fairy tales" about their history.

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

4. What did the inquest decide was the cause of Freddie Parr's death?

5. Which of the boys' bodies does Mary appear to be most interested in?

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