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

2. What competition does Mary demand the boys take part in before she takes off her last piece of clothing for the winner?
(a) A wrestling match.
(b) A footrace to the bridge and back.
(c) An underwater swimming competition.
(d) A competition to find and catch the largest eel.

3. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?
(a) A bomber airplane.
(b) The growling of an angry beast.
(c) Machine gun fire.
(d) The thudding of his own heart.

4. Where does the old Mary Crick claim she got her child without being pregnant?
(a) From her neighbor's son George.
(b) From God.
(c) From the supermarket.
(d) She found it on the doorstep.

5. What to Tom and Mary ask Martha to help them with?
(a) Finding a key to Dick's chest.
(b) A way to save Mary's baby.
(c) An abortion for Mary.
(d) Poison for Dick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary tell Tom that she does not tell the judge?

2. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

3. On what days does Tom stay at home at night because Dick spends the evenings out with Mary?

4. What does the phrase "in loco parentis" mean?

5. What sparks Tom Crick's interest in the mating habits of eels?

(see the answer key)

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