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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?
(a) 37 years.
(b) 99 years.
(c) 68 years.
(d) 92 years.

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

5. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?
(a) His ability to smuggle liquor out of an American military base nearby.
(b) His heckling of young women who worked in the fields.
(c) His habit of stealing livestock off the river barges.
(d) His tendency to get into fights with the local barman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary fail to explain to Dick properly, with terrible consequences?

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

3. What medical condition is Tom afraid that Mary might have?

4. What about Mary strikes Tom when he returns from Germany at the end of World War II to marry her?

5. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?

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