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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mary doing at the windmill when Tom finds her?
(a) She is sleeping with Dick.
(b) She is talking to the wind as if it were a person.
(c) She jumps so she falls on her stomach to kill her unborn child.
(d) She is cutting herself with a razor blade.

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

3. What is Martha Clay's pet?
(a) A ferret.
(b) An angry dog.
(c) A talking raven.
(d) A black cat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the mother's reaction to the Cricks when they return the baby?

2. How old is Mary when she steals the baby?

3. On what days does Tom stay at home at night because Dick spends the evenings out with Mary?

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

5. According to ancient tradition, too much phlegm is best countered with large amounts of what substance that many characters in the novel use in large quantities?

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