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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 name of the supermarket that Mary stole the baby from?
(a) Safeways.
(b) Morrisons.
(c) Tesco.
(d) Sainsburys.

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

3. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
(a) Eager.
(b) Aloof.
(c) Passive.
(d) Curious.

4. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?
(a) Phlegm.
(b) An obese matron.
(c) Pudding.
(d) Quicksand.

5. What is the historical event that Tom Crick keeps returning to over and over again as he explains that history seems to move in a circle?
(a) The Sarajevo Assassination of 1914.
(b) The Norman Invasion of 1066.
(c) The French Revolution of 1789.
(d) The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the landscape the novel is set in?

3. What does Tom compare migrating geese to in the winter of 1943?

4. How does Tom react to finding the child Mary has stolen?

5. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?

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