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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary tell Tom that she does not tell the judge?
(a) That the mother had told her to take the child.
(b) That she didn't really hear a voice from God telling her to take the child.
(c) That she had planned abducting the child for a long time.
(d) That she had seen the mother pinch the child angrily.

2. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?
(a) They invent the steam engine.
(b) An ancestor saves Queen Elizabeth, is knighted and given a royal commission.
(c) They return rich from an exploration to the Americas.
(d) They grow the best malt barley for beer brewing in the area.

3. Which boy is most aggressive about asking the two girls to take their clothes off?
(a) Freddie Parr.
(b) Tom Crick.
(c) Peter Baine.
(d) Dick Crick.

4. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?
(a) She is caught on the second floor of her house when it burns down.
(b) Her husband dies and his relatives take all his money from her, leaving her destitute.
(c) Her husband hits her in the head in a fit of rage, leaving her a living shell of her former self.
(d) She loses her long-awaited first child at its birth.

5. What is Henry Crick's occupation?
(a) Lock keeper at the Atkinson Lock.
(b) Brewmaster at the Atkinson Brewery.
(c) History teacher.
(d) Barge captain on the River Ouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?

2. What is the agreement between Helen and Ernest Atkinson in exchange for Ernest allowing Helen to marry Harry Crick?

3. Where does Tom put the bottle that he found drifting in the water after Freddie Parr's death?

4. What is the name of the Cricks' doctor?

5. Where did the stuffed pike come from?

(see the answer key)

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