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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sparks Tom Crick's interest in the mating habits of eels?
(a) Mary asks him to look it up because she wants to use it as an example to teach Dick about sex.
(b) His memory of an eel in Mary's knickers and his need to take his mind off Mary being with Dick.
(c) Mary tells Tom if he can find out the truth about how eels mate, she'll stop her love lessons with Dick.
(d) His desire to show his own curiosity is as strong as Mary's.

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

3. What does Tom think is a superstition people believed in "once upon a time"?
(a) That history matters.
(b) The end of the world.
(c) The goodness of human kind.
(d) God.

4. What is the name of the Cricks' doctor?
(a) Dr. Atlee.
(b) Dr. Bright.
(c) Dr. Fiddler.
(d) Dr. Higginbotham.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the stuffed pike come from?

2. Who buys a large house in Gildsey for the newly married Tom and Mary?

3. Whom does Helen Crick ask to see when she is on her deathbed?

4. Where does the old Mary Crick claim she got her child without being pregnant?

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

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