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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?
(a) They both escape to the ruined windmill together in the afternoons.
(b) They both take the same train to school every day.
(c) They both have odd older brothers.
(d) They both grew up without a mother.

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

3. How does Price feel about helping his drunk teacher Tom Crick once they are out on the street outside the pub?
(a) Embarrassed.
(b) Amused.
(c) Superior.
(d) Overwhelmed.

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

5. What is NOT one of the grotesque details Tom Crick lists to show that the French Revolution should better be remembered for its guillotines than for the festive spirit of the French on July 14th, when they "prefer fairy tales" about their history.
(a) Corpseless heads that rolled their eyes and screamed.
(b) Headless corpses that flailed and kicked.
(c) Old women knitting at the scaffold.
(d) Ravens picking at piles of corpses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?

2. What is the feeling Tom has about leaving Mary at the insane asylum?

3. In chapter 32, what is the event that Dick cannot understand?

4. What about the scene at the Lode does NOT remind Tom of the later scene of Freddie Parr's death?

5. What does the headmaster calls the students of the Holocaust Club?

(see the answer key)

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