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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Price shout when Tom Crick stands up to give his farewell speech?
(a) No cuts! Keep Crick!
(b) All teachers are fascists!
(c) History is dead!
(d) Shut up! Get out!

2. What do the student chant at the headmaster while he is giving his speech?
(a) Give us Crick!
(b) History is dead!
(c) Fear is here!
(d) Get lost, old man!

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

4. What important phrase does Tom shout to Price just before they part?
(a) Don't forget me!
(b) Don't become like I am!
(c) Don't let them do it!
(d) All I told you was lies!

5. How old is Mary when she steals the baby?
(a) 52.
(b) 45.
(c) 15.
(d) 63.

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

7. What does Mary tell Tom that she does not tell the judge?
(a) That she had planned abducting the child for a long time.
(b) That the mother had told her to take the child.
(c) That she didn't really hear a voice from God telling her to take the child.
(d) That she had seen the mother pinch the child angrily.

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

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

10. What does Mary tell Tom about the unborn child at the windmill?
(a) That the child is Freddie Parr's.
(b) That the child his her father's.
(c) That the child has been dead for weeks.
(d) That the child is Dick's after all.

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

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

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

14. Who turns out to be Ernest's other child?
(a) Freddie Parr.
(b) Tom Crick.
(c) Dick Crick.
(d) Mary Metcalf.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Martha Clay's pet?

2. What does Mary fail to explain to Dick properly, with terrible consequences?

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

4. What is NOT one of the synonyms for phlegm used in chapter 52?

5. Tom dislikes the pike because...

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