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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Harry Crick hears that Mary told her father that Tom is the father of her aborted child, what does he tell Tom they should do?
(a) Get married.
(b) Stay away from each other.
(c) Repent and confess to a priest.
(d) Never mention it again.

2. Who turns out to be Ernest's other child?
(a) Mary Metcalf.
(b) Dick Crick.
(c) Tom Crick.
(d) Freddie Parr.

3. What is NOT one of the grotesque details Tom Crick lists to show that the French Revolution should better be remembered for its guillotines than for the festive spirit of the French on July 14th, when they "prefer fairy tales" about their history.
(a) Old women knitting at the scaffold.
(b) Ravens picking at piles of corpses.
(c) Headless corpses that flailed and kicked.
(d) Corpseless heads that rolled their eyes and screamed.

4. 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.

5. What is the great mystery about the eel that nobody has been able to explain?
(a) Where and how eels mate.
(b) How eels can live both in salt water and fresh water.
(c) What family of species the eel really belongs to.
(d) How long eels have existed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Johannes Schmidt, whose theory about eels and their mating habits is considered the most accurate one, thought that eels mate where?

3. What do Tom and Mary hope will happen as they drive back to the supermarket to return the child?

4. What World War I battle was Tom's father injured in and saw his brother killed in earlier in the day?

5. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?

(see the answer key)

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