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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's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?
(a) She stole a baby from a stroller in a supermarket.
(b) She began to scream at odd times of the night.
(c) She has developed Alzheimer's disease.
(d) Tom Crick hit her over the head and she lost her mind.

2. What is not one of the things Tom does in the evenings when he alone?
(a) Drink heavily.
(b) Cry.
(c) Grade papers.
(d) Smoke cigarettes.

3. What is the landscape the novel is set in?
(a) The coastline of Cornwall.
(b) The Fens in eastern England.
(c) The Lake District in northern England.
(d) The docks of East London.

4. Whom does Helen Crick ask to see when she is on her deathbed?
(a) Ernest.
(b) Harry.
(c) Tom.
(d) Dick.

5. Who tells Harry Crick the truth about Freddie Parr and Dick?
(a) Dick.
(b) The ghost of Sarah Atkinson.
(c) Mary.
(d) Tom.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?

2. What is NOT one of the emblems of by-gone years that Tom includes in his list of memories he wants Mary to recall?

3. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?

4. What is the name of the student club that Price is part of?

5. Where did the stuffed pike come from?

(see the answer key)

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