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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In chapter 32, what is the event that Dick cannot understand?
(a) Freddie Parr's death.
(b) Mary's attempt to teach him about love.
(c) His mother's death.
(d) Finding the bottle he used to kill Freddie.

3. Instead of living up to their ideals of freedom, brotherhood, and equality, Tom says the French revolutionaries turned straight to what?
(a) Mob rule and mass murder.
(b) Destroying their own civilization.
(c) The radical capitalism of Adam Smith.
(d) Napoleon and his promises of glory and Empire.

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

5. How does Harry Crick find out that his son Dick is in love with Mary?
(a) Dick asks how babies are made.
(b) Dick angrily shouts at Tom to stay away from Mary.
(c) Mary's father, Harold Metcalf, asks him to keep Dick away from Mary.
(d) He overhears Dick talking to himself about Mary.

6. Why does Tom Crick apologize to Price outside the pub?
(a) Tom thinks he wasted the students' time in his history class.
(b) Tom promised Price a lift but now is too drunk to drive.
(c) Tom doesn't really know either.
(d) Tom shouts at the barman and has them both kicked out of the pub.

7. What is the feeling Tom has about leaving Mary at the insane asylum?
(a) He is afraid she'll be abused.
(b) He feels strangely elated.
(c) That she will get better with time.
(d) That he is not leaving her, but she him.

8. What is the reason Mary gives Tom for trying to seduce Dick in chapter 32?
(a) Her fear of Dick's anger.
(b) Her curiosity.
(c) Her wish to make Tom jealous.
(d) Her desire to make Dick feel less lonely.

9. Where does Tom go after he leaves Mary at the insane asylum?
(a) The Safeways supermarket.
(b) Price's parents' house.
(c) Greenwich Park.
(d) Gildsey.

10. What is in the chest in the attic that Helen bestows upon Dick?
(a) Helen's crucifix.
(b) The veil of Sarah Atkinson.
(c) Helen's antique jewelry.
(d) Several bottles of Coronation Ale.

11. What does Mary stare at all day at the mental hospital?
(a) A travel picture book of the Fens.
(b) A picture of Dick Crick.
(c) The ceiling of her room.
(d) The playground children across the road.

12. In Tom's mind, the headmaster thinks of the school as what, figuratively speaking?
(a) A kennel for wild dogs.
(b) A duck pond with a fence.
(c) A swamp full of lost sheep.
(d) An atomic bomb shelter.

13. What is NOT a positive personality trait associated with phlegm, and one notably absent from most of the major characters of the novel?
(a) Patience.
(b) Sobriety.
(c) Fieriness.
(d) Calm.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dick's reaction to the revelation about his birth?

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

3. What does Mary tell Tom about the unborn child at the windmill?

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

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

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