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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the soldiers at the 1915 Royal Cambrideshire Militia parade to stumble out of formation?
(a) Drinking Coronation Ale.
(b) Helen Atkinson's beauty.
(c) The sound of a beer barge foghorn.
(d) Heckling by Ernest Atkinson.

2. What does Dick do when he finds the bottle?
(a) He hides it in a wooden chest with a lock in the attic.
(b) He screams and later says he saw Sarah Atkinson's ghost.
(c) He ties it to the handle of his motorbike with a piece of string.
(d) He threatens Tom not to tell anyone about it or he will hurt Tom.

3. What do Tom and Mary hope will happen as they drive back to the supermarket to return the child?
(a) That they can find the mother and return the child quietly.
(b) That the mother will not have noticed that the child has gone.
(c) That the mother will have simply disappeared.
(d) That the mother will let them keep the child.

4. 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 ignores them and only has eyes for the baby.
(c) She assaults Mary and tries to scratch her eyes out.
(d) She shouts for the police to arrest them.

5. How old is Mary when she steals the baby?
(a) 63.
(b) 45.
(c) 52.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of chapter 44, Tom Crick decides that what people really want to know isn't truth. What they really want is...

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

3. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"

4. What is it that Tom decides he must find at all cost?

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

(see the answer key)

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