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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What it the brand of Dick's motorbike?
(a) Honda.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Velocette.
(d) Harley Davidson.

2. What temperament does phlegm tend towards, as reflected in the mood of the landscape the novel is set in and in the mood of many of its major characters?
(a) Sanguine.
(b) Inquisitive.
(c) Melancholic.
(d) Choleric.

3. Why does Mary tell Dick that she is pregnant with Freddie Parr's child?
(a) She tells Dick it isn't his child, sees his anger, and wants to protect Tom.
(b) She wants to end her love lessons with Dick.
(c) She wants Dick to make Freddie leave her alone.
(d) She's being silly, but Dick doesn't understand that she is joking.

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

5. While Martha locks herself in with Mary, she asks Tom to do what outside?
(a) Stand guard.
(b) Pluck a duck.
(c) Pray to the Virgin Mary.
(d) Chop firewood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT in the chest Tom and Dick open in the attic?

2. What is the image Tom uses to describe his idea of progress?

3. In Tom's mind, the headmaster thinks of the school as what, figuratively speaking?

4. Instead of living up to their ideals of freedom, brotherhood, and equality, Tom says the French revolutionaries turned straight to what?

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

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