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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?
(a) That she saw Freddie attack Dick the night before by the river bridge.
(b) That she is pregnant from Tom, but told Dick it was Freddie's child.
(c) That she is about to run off to London to hide from her father.
(d) That she pushed Freddie into the river.

3. Who says, "explaining's a way of avoiding the facts while you pretend to get near to them?"
(a) Price.
(b) Lewis Scott.
(c) Tom Crick.
(d) Mary Crick.

4. What does Tom notice for the first time when Mary struggles with Freddie Parr's prank?
(a) That Mary is ticklish.
(b) That Freddie Parr is a drunkard.
(c) That Terry Coe is afraid of eels.
(d) That Dick is interested in Mary and that Mary is interested in Dick.

5. What is the agreement between Helen and Ernest Atkinson in exchange for Ernest allowing Helen to marry Harry Crick?
(a) That Helen will have Ernest's child.
(b) That Helen will find a way to assuage Sarah Atkinson's ghost.
(c) That Helen will become a nurse at the Kessling Hall asylum.
(d) That Helen will help Ernest commit suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two fictional characters does Tom compare himself and Mary to as they walk the Fenland tracks to Martha Clay's cottage?

2. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?

3. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?

4. Where do the Cricks find the body of Freddie Parr?

5. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?

(see the answer key)

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