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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?
(a) The men were silent and preferred to keep to themselves.
(b) The army served the same ale the Atkinsons brewed in Gildsey.
(c) The mud felt the same and eels swam in the pools.
(d) The pretty girls in the town were disdainful of him.

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

3. What does the letter reveal to Tom and Dick about Dick?
(a) That he is the heir to a vast fortune hidden in the Fens.
(b) That he is the child of incest between Ernest and his daughter Helen.
(c) That Ernest found Dick in the shrubs near a canal and Helen adopted him.
(d) That Dick is entitled to Ernest's seat in the British parliament.

4. What tells Tom that he and Mary must finish their argument quickly because the park is about to close?
(a) The park-keeper's bell.
(b) The steady stream of dog owners towards the park gates.
(c) The gruff voice of the park warden asking others to leave.
(d) The sunset glistening on the duck pond.

5. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"
(a) Socrates.
(b) Cicero.
(c) Heraclitus of Ephesus.
(d) Dionysius the Areopagite.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tom Crick's response to this revelation?

2. Which boy is most aggressive about asking the two girls to take their clothes off?

3. Where does the old Mary Crick claim she got her child without being pregnant?

4. While Harry Crick recovers from his ordeal, whom does Mary remind him of?

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

(see the answer key)

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