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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Mary and Tom waiting for the last time they lie together at the windmill?
(a) For a voice from God telling them what to do.
(b) For the first winter snow.
(c) For Dick to find them and kill them.
(d) For Mary to have a miscarriage.

2. What is the question Price asks Tom during their evening spent together that shakes Tom most deeply?
(a) Whether Tom even would want to bring children into the world as it is.
(b) Whether Tom has ever considered ending it all.
(c) Whether Tom isn't actually happy about having been fired.
(d) Whether Tom truly loves Mary.

3. While Harry Crick recovers from his ordeal, whom does Mary remind him of?
(a) His wife, Helen Atkinson.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) Florence Nightingale.
(d) Sarah Atkinson.

4. Tom dislikes the pike because...
(a) The pike reminds him of Dick.
(b) The pike smells awful.
(c) Pikes were swarming around Freddie Parr's body.
(d) Pikes are killers and scares him.

5. Who buys a large house in Gildsey for the newly married Tom and Mary?
(a) Harold Metcalf.
(b) Dick Crick.
(c) Harry Crick.
(d) Tom Crick.

6. 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) Ravens picking at piles of corpses.
(d) Old women knitting at the scaffold.

7. What does Mary fail to explain to Dick properly, with terrible consequences?
(a) How children are actually made.
(b) That she is truly in love with Tom.
(c) That she is truly in love with Freddie.
(d) That she is truly in love with Dick.

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

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

10. What does the headmaster calls the students of the Holocaust Club?
(a) Fear-mongering morons.
(b) Exemplary visionaries.
(c) Prophets of doom.
(d) Crick-loving losers.

11. Price tells Tom Crick of his nightmare about:
(a) Tom Crick dying on the last day of class.
(b) A wailing woman in a supermarket.
(c) A black dog outside his window.
(d) A nuclear holocaust.

12. How does Tom react to finding the child Mary has stolen?
(a) He shouts for help.
(b) He is too dumbfounded to react.
(c) He grabs it and they struggle.
(d) He immediately calls the police.

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

14. On what days does Tom stay at home at night because Dick spends the evenings out with Mary?
(a) Wednesday and Saturday.
(b) Monday and Thursday.
(c) Wednesday and Sunday.
(d) Tuesday and Friday.

15. Where does the old Mary Crick claim she got her child without being pregnant?
(a) She found it on the doorstep.
(b) From the supermarket.
(c) From her neighbor's son George.
(d) From God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom Crick compares the end of a person's life to...

2. Where does Tom Crick take Price to talk about Tom's forced retirement?

3. What is not one of the things Tom does in the evenings when he alone?

4. What is NOT a negative personality trait associated with phlegm, although it plays a pivotal role in some of the novel's most important turning points?

5. Which two fictional characters does Tom compare himself and Mary to as they walk the Fenland tracks to Martha Clay's cottage?

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