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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. Who hunted in Greenwich Park, where Tom and Mary sit in the evenings with their dog?
(a) Queen Anne.
(b) King Henry VIII.
(c) The Duke of Wellington.
(d) Sir Walter Raleigh.

2. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?
(a) She loses her long-awaited first child at its birth.
(b) Her husband hits her in the head in a fit of rage, leaving her a living shell of her former self.
(c) She is caught on the second floor of her house when it burns down.
(d) Her husband dies and his relatives take all his money from her, leaving her destitute.

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) Lewis Scott.
(d) Price.

4. Tom Crick's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?
(a) She began to scream at odd times of the night.
(b) She has developed Alzheimer's disease.
(c) Tom Crick hit her over the head and she lost her mind.
(d) She stole a baby from a stroller in a supermarket.

5. The effects of Ernest's special ale caused all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) The near-collision of two pleasure boats whose steersmen had drunk too much.
(b) The premature setting off of the evening's fireworks.
(c) Wild improvisations by the marching band.
(d) The mass desertion of the army troops stationed in the town to the taverns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason Mary gives Tom for trying to seduce Dick in chapter 32?

2. After Freddie's death, Mary reacts in a drastic way. What does she do?

3. What causes the soldiers at the 1915 Royal Cambrideshire Militia parade to stumble out of formation?

4. Price tells Tom Crick of his nightmare about:

5. What is the landscape the novel is set in?

(see the answer key)

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