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

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 steals all her clothes and forces her to walk home naked.
(b) He slips a large eel into her knickers.
(c) He holds her under water until she nearly drowns.
(d) He rolls her in wet mud until she is totally covered by it.

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

3. Price tells Tom Crick of his nightmare about:
(a) A wailing woman in a supermarket.
(b) A nuclear holocaust.
(c) A black dog outside his window.
(d) Tom Crick dying on the last day of class.

4. What is the landscape the novel is set in?
(a) The Fens in eastern England.
(b) The Lake District in northern England.
(c) The docks of East London.
(d) The coastline of Cornwall.

5. What does the phrase "in loco parentis" mean?
(a) According to the logic of the parents.
(b) Placed in parentheses.
(c) In place of the parents.
(d) Because of parental insanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom confronts Price about his frequent interruptions during class. What question does Price's reluctance about history boil down to?

2. What is it that Tom decides he must find at all cost?

3. How does Price feel about helping his drunk teacher Tom Crick once they are out on the street outside the pub?

4. What is the catastrophe that hits Europe in January 1937?

5. Which part of London does the couple move to once they are married and Tom takes a job as a history teacher?

(see the answer key)

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