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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tom dislikes the pike because...
(a) Pikes were swarming around Freddie Parr's body.
(b) The pike smells awful.
(c) The pike reminds him of Dick.
(d) Pikes are killers and scares him.

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

3. What does Tom dream that he considers telling the headmaster about?
(a) He dreams of Price as the Prime Minister of Britain.
(b) He dreams of the headmaster drowning in a canal.
(c) He dreams of Mary as she was when she was 15.
(d) He dreams of a woman wailing in a supermarket.

4. What is the name of the Cricks' doctor?
(a) Dr. Bright.
(b) Dr. Higginbotham.
(c) Dr. Fiddler.
(d) Dr. Atlee.

5. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?
(a) An ancestor saves Queen Elizabeth, is knighted and given a royal commission.
(b) They grow the best malt barley for beer brewing in the area.
(c) They invent the steam engine.
(d) They return rich from an exploration to the Americas.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mary's father Harold Metcalf treat Tom's father Harry?

2. Who tells Harry Crick the truth about Freddie Parr and Dick?

3. What does the phrase "in loco parentis" mean?

4. What is the worst thing Tom Crick can imagine?

5. When Harry Crick hears that Mary told her father that Tom is the father of her aborted child, what does he tell Tom they should do?

(see the answer key)

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