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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary tell Tom that she does not tell the judge?
(a) That she didn't really hear a voice from God telling her to take the child.
(b) That the mother had told her to take the child.
(c) That she had seen the mother pinch the child angrily.
(d) That she had planned abducting the child for a long time.

2. What does Ernest Atkinson convert his manor Kessling Hall into?
(a) A museum in honor of Sarah Atkinson.
(b) A hospital for the wounded of World War I.
(c) A school for orphans.
(d) An asylum for the mentally ill.

3. When Tom and Mary take the baby back to the car, Tom is afraid that the silent baby is what?
(a) In a coma.
(b) Suffering interior injuries.
(c) Not real.
(d) Dead with shock.

4. What medical condition is Tom afraid that Mary might have?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Alzheimer's disease.

5. What is it that Tom decides he must find at all cost?
(a) A way to expose Dick as Freddie's murderer.
(b) A key to his mother's chest in the attic.
(c) His grandfather's diary.
(d) A full bottle of Coronation Ale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dick do when he finds the bottle?

2. What is the River Tom Crick describes at great length to explain how the landscape of the novel's setting is formed?

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

4. What do Tom and Mary hope will happen as they drive back to the supermarket to return the child?

5. Who hunted in Greenwich Park, where Tom and Mary sit in the evenings with their dog?

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