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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 about the unborn child at the windmill?
(a) That the child his her father's.
(b) That the child has been dead for weeks.
(c) That the child is Freddie Parr's.
(d) That the child is Dick's after all.

2. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?
(a) St. Gunnhilda.
(b) St. Julian of Norwich.
(c) St. Mary.
(d) St. Gertrude of the Marshes.

3. What does Mary fail to explain to Dick properly, with terrible consequences?
(a) That she is truly in love with Dick.
(b) That she is truly in love with Tom.
(c) How children are actually made.
(d) That she is truly in love with Freddie.

4. What causes the soldiers at the 1915 Royal Cambrideshire Militia parade to stumble out of formation?
(a) Drinking Coronation Ale.
(b) Heckling by Ernest Atkinson.
(c) The sound of a beer barge foghorn.
(d) Helen Atkinson's beauty.

5. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?
(a) The Grand '51.
(b) The Crimean Victory.
(c) The Golden Jubilee.
(d) The Empress of India.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the catastrophe that hits Europe in January 1937?

2. What does Ernest Atkinson convert his manor Kessling Hall into?

3. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?

4. Whom does Helen Crick ask to see when she is on her deathbed?

5. What secret does Tom reveal to his students about Lewis Scott, the headmaster of the school?

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