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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25 | Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tom eventually arrange to marry Mary, even though her father Harold Metcalf hates him?
(a) Tom comes home a war hero, and Harold Metcalf is too embarrassed to say no.
(b) Tom's father Harry asks Harold for permission in the place of his son.
(c) Mary ignores her father and elopes with Tom.
(d) Tom breaks into the Metcalf home at night and runs off with Mary.

2. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?
(a) He takes a ruinous Grand Tour of Europe.
(b) He closes the Atkinson brewery.
(c) He sells Kessling Hall, their estate.
(d) He sells the Water Transport Company.

3. What is the great mystery about the eel that nobody has been able to explain?
(a) How eels can live both in salt water and fresh water.
(b) What family of species the eel really belongs to.
(c) How long eels have existed.
(d) Where and how eels mate.

4. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?
(a) Sine Qua Non.
(b) Quid Pro Quo.
(c) Ex Aqua Fermentum.
(d) E Pluribus Unum.

5. What tells Tom that he and Mary must finish their argument quickly because the park is about to close?
(a) The park-keeper's bell.
(b) The sunset glistening on the duck pond.
(c) The gruff voice of the park warden asking others to leave.
(d) The steady stream of dog owners towards the park gates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Cricks find the body of Freddie Parr?

2. Tom thinks that people who focus on ideals like the Declaration of the Rights of Man instead of the details of the French Revolution forget what important fact?

3. After Freddie's death, Mary reacts in a drastic way. What does she do?

4. What marks the end of Ernest Atkinson's political career?

5. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?

(see the answer key)

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