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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) Stay away from each other.
(b) Never mention it again.
(c) Get married.
(d) Repent and confess to a priest.

2. What is the object that Dick Crick treats like it is a real person?
(a) His motorbike.
(b) His dead mother's sewing machine.
(c) His father's radio.
(d) His barge engine.

3. While Martha locks herself in with Mary, she asks Tom to do what outside?
(a) Chop firewood.
(b) Pluck a duck.
(c) Stand guard.
(d) Pray to the Virgin Mary.

4. Which two fictional characters does Tom compare himself and Mary to as they walk the Fenland tracks to Martha Clay's cottage?
(a) Hereward and Torfrida.
(b) Lancelot and Guinevere.
(c) Robin Hood and Maid Marian.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dick do when he finds the bottle?

2. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?

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

4. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?

5. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?

(see the answer key)

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