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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
(a) They owned a major textile factory.
(b) They represented the Gildsey district in parliament.
(c) They ran a famous brewery.
(d) They helped drain the marshes by buiding locks and canals.

2. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?
(a) How?
(b) When?
(c) Why?
(d) Who?

3. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?
(a) The Singing Swans of Wash Fen Mere.
(b) The Headless Ferryman of Staithe.
(c) The Monk of Sudchurch.
(d) The Grim Hound of Gargoyle Hall.

4. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?
(a) An obese matron.
(b) Quicksand.
(c) Phlegm.
(d) Pudding.

5. The headmaster of the school where Tom Crick teaches history thinks Tom should retire from his job. Why?
(a) All of the above.
(b) History will be eliminated from the curriculum.
(c) The headmaster does not like Tom Crick.
(d) Tom Crick has stopped teaching the syllabus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?

2. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?

3. What is the landscape the novel is set in?

4. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?

5. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?

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