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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Harry Crick have to wait until he is rescued?
(a) Three days and nights.
(b) Not even ten minutes.
(c) A night and a day.
(d) A week.

2. What is the River Tom Crick describes at great length to explain how the landscape of the novel's setting is formed?
(a) The Thames.
(b) The Tyne.
(c) The Ouse.
(d) The Cam.

3. Harry feels ridiculous in Tom's presence, because while Tom read history books Harry did what?
(a) Drunk himself to sleep.
(b) Talked to chickens.
(c) Doted on Dick.
(d) Hunted waterfowl.

4. Johannes Schmidt, whose theory about eels and their mating habits is considered the most accurate one, thought that eels mate where?
(a) The Sargasso Sea.
(b) In river springs.
(c) The Arctic Ocean.
(d) The Gulf of Mexico.

5. What does Tom dream that he considers telling the headmaster about?
(a) He dreams of Mary as she was when she was 15.
(b) He dreams of a woman wailing in a supermarket.
(c) He dreams of Price as the Prime Minister of Britain.
(d) He dreams of the headmaster drowning in a canal.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Martha locks herself in with Mary, she asks Tom to do what outside?

2. How does Price feel about helping his drunk teacher Tom Crick once they are out on the street outside the pub?

3. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?

4. Tom thinks Mary cannot overcome her insanity because...

5. How did Mary's father Harold Metcalf treat Tom's father Harry?

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