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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who dies of the flu?
(a) Jack Parr.
(b) Harry Crick.
(c) Ernest Atkinson.
(d) Helen Crick.

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

3. Which of the following is NOT in the chest Tom and Dick open in the attic?
(a) A portrait picture of their mother when she was young and beautiful.
(b) Four thick notebooks that are Ernest Atkinson's journals.
(c) A letter from Ernest Atkinson to Dick.
(d) Eleven bottles of Coronation Ale.

4. What does Ernest Atkinson do with the three remaining steam ships he owns?
(a) He converts them into pleasure cruise ships.
(b) He names them after his daughter, Helen I, Helen II, and Helen III.
(c) He sells them to the city of Gildsey for the use of the fire brigade.
(d) He donates them to the army to aid in the war effort.

5. What is Dick's reaction to the revelation about his birth?
(a) He tries to kill Tom with one of the beer bottles.
(b) He runs from the room, hides, and then drives off on his motorbike.
(c) He laughs, jumps up and down, and cries,
(d) He shouts that he lu-lu-loves Tom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?

2. Whom does Helen Crick ask to see when she is on her deathbed?

3. What does Ernest Atkinson convert his manor Kessling Hall into?

4. What is one of the books Tom Crick reads that he finds in the trove of books collected by his great-aunts Louisa and Dora?

5. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

(see the answer key)

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