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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 45.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are Mary and Tom waiting for the last time they lie together at the windmill?
(a) For Dick to find them and kill them.
(b) For a voice from God telling them what to do.
(c) For the first winter snow.
(d) For Mary to have a miscarriage.

3. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?
(a) The Grand '51.
(b) The Empress of India.
(c) The Golden Jubilee.
(d) The Crimean Victory.

4. Whom does Helen Crick ask to see when she is on her deathbed?
(a) Tom.
(b) Dick.
(c) Harry.
(d) Ernest.

5. Where does the old Mary Crick claim she got her child without being pregnant?
(a) From her neighbor's son George.
(b) From God.
(c) She found it on the doorstep.
(d) From the supermarket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Henry Crick, Tom's father, is obsessed with one question about Freddie's death that he repeats over and over again. What is it?

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

3. Tom Crick compares history teachers to which fictional character?

4. What game are Tom Crick, Freddie Parr, Peter Baine, and Terry Coe playing with Mary Metcalf and Shirley Alford on the banks of the Hockwell Lode as Dick Crick looks on?

5. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the difference between animals and humans?

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