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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the stuffed pike come from?
(a) Dick never tells anyone.
(b) Dick caught it.
(c) It was a wedding present for Dick and Helen Crick.
(d) Tom caught it and gave it to Dick for his birthday.

2. At the end of chapter 44, Tom Crick decides that what people really want to know isn't truth. What they really want is...
(a) An excuse to hate.
(b) Drama.
(c) To know that they're right.
(d) To laugh at someone.

3. What is the mother's reaction to the Cricks when they return the baby?
(a) She pretends that the baby isn't hers.
(b) She assaults Mary and tries to scratch her eyes out.
(c) She ignores them and only has eyes for the baby.
(d) She shouts for the police to arrest them.

4. What is the historical fact that Tom says "history scarcely finds time to mention"?
(a) That on the eve of the French Revolution Louis XVI mourned his firstborn.
(b) That 55,000 German civilians died in the fire bombing Hamburg by the Allies.
(c) That Marie Antoinette never said the phrase, "let them eat cake."
(d) That King Arthur was not English at all, but rather Welsh.

5. What does Mary fail to explain to Dick properly, with terrible consequences?
(a) That she is truly in love with Tom.
(b) That she is truly in love with Dick.
(c) How children are actually made.
(d) That she is truly in love with Freddie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom compare the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to?

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

3. What does Mary stare at all day at the mental hospital?

4. What important phrase does Tom shout to Price just before they part?

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

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