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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What medical condition is Tom afraid that Mary might have?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Alzheimer's disease.

2. What does Dick hide in the mouth of a stuffed pike?
(a) A note Mary gives him.
(b) The key to his mother's chest in the attic.
(c) The shards of the murder weapon.
(d) A picture of his mother and Tom as an infant.

3. What is the image Tom uses to describe his idea of progress?
(a) An eel
(b) Reclaiming land
(c) The guillotine
(d) Dick on a motorcycle

4. What does Tom compare his father to as every day he sees him trudge back and forth along the canal?
(a) A tethered dog.
(b) A caged wolf.
(c) A blind ox.
(d) A chained falcon.

5. 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 create offspring by rubbing against rocks; the young form the shreds of skin that come off.
(c) Eels form out of small parasites that begin their lives in the belly of larger fish.
(d) Eels fertilize their eggs internally and bring forth live young.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom dislikes the pike because...

2. What is the lesson about history that Tom Crick draws from the study of eel mating behavior?

3. What is Mary doing at the windmill when Tom finds her?

4. On what days does Tom stay at home at night because Dick spends the evenings out with Mary?

5. Henry Crick, Tom's father, is obsessed with one question about Freddie's death that he repeats over and over again. What is it?

(see the answer key)

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