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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title Ernest Atkinson gives Dick in the letter?
(a) Saviour of the World.
(b) Earl of Gildsey.
(c) Most Beloved Grandson.
(d) An expletive.

2. Who dies of the flu?
(a) Jack Parr.
(b) Harry Crick.
(c) Helen Crick.
(d) Ernest Atkinson.

3. Which of the following is NOT a theory that biologists have put forward about how eels reproduce?
(a) Eels are sexless and a born spontaneously out of the mud.
(b) Eels form out of small parasites that begin their lives in the belly of larger fish.
(c) Eels create offspring by rubbing against rocks; the young form the shreds of skin that come off.
(d) Eels fertilize their eggs internally and bring forth live young.

4. What is Tom Crick's response to Mary's claim that God speaks to her.
(a) God never spoke to anyone.
(b) God is imaginary.
(c) God does not speak anymore.
(d) God does not exist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom call the students?

2. In Tom's mind, the headmaster thinks of the school as what, figuratively speaking?

3. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"

4. What to Tom and Mary ask Martha to help them with?

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

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