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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tells Tom that he and Mary must finish their argument quickly because the park is about to close?
(a) The gruff voice of the park warden asking others to leave.
(b) The sunset glistening on the duck pond.
(c) The park-keeper's bell.
(d) The steady stream of dog owners towards the park gates.

2. 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?
(a) Underwater hide and seek.
(b) A coy game of Show Me Yours, I'll Show You Mine.
(c) They ask each other silly riddles.
(d) A raucous game of catch.

3. Who dies of the flu?
(a) Ernest Atkinson.
(b) Harry Crick.
(c) Jack Parr.
(d) Helen Crick.

4. What does Dick do when he finds the bottle?
(a) He screams and later says he saw Sarah Atkinson's ghost.
(b) He threatens Tom not to tell anyone about it or he will hurt Tom.
(c) He hides it in a wooden chest with a lock in the attic.
(d) He ties it to the handle of his motorbike with a piece of string.

5. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
(a) Curious.
(b) Aloof.
(c) Passive.
(d) Eager.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During the festivities for the newly crowned King George V, the New Atkinson Brewery is destroyed. How?

3. What is Martha Clay's pet?

4. Where does the old Mary Crick claim she got her child without being pregnant?

5. The effects of Ernest's special ale caused all of the following EXCEPT:

(see the answer key)

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