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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) To laugh at someone.
(b) An excuse to hate.
(c) Drama.
(d) To know that they're right.

4. What is the way out everybody in Price's nightmare uses except for Price?
(a) Turning themselves into more black dogs.
(b) Covering their ears.
(c) Suicide pills.
(d) The classroom window.

5. 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) Choleric.
(b) Inquisitive.
(c) Melancholic.
(d) Sanguine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a positive personality trait associated with phlegm, and one notably absent from most of the major characters of the novel?

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

3. What is the feeling Tom has about leaving Mary at the insane asylum?

4. Tom thinks Mary cannot overcome her insanity because...

5. When Tom and Mary take the baby back to the car, Tom is afraid that the silent baby is what?

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