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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 39 | Chapter 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Henry Crick, Tom's father, is obsessed with one question about Freddie's death that he repeats over and over again. What is it?
(a) Could he have saved Freddie?
(b) How did Freddie die?
(c) Who killed Freddie?
(d) Why did Freddie have to die?

2. What does Tom Crick think the French really celebrate on Bastille Day when they mark the beginning of the French Revolution?
(a) The power of the mob over government.
(b) An event that never took place.
(c) The beginning of the Napoleonic Empire.
(d) An event that was not nearly as important at the time as it is now made out to be.

3. What does Tom Crick mean by the term "Natural History"?
(a) History as it would progress if humans didn't attempt to interfere in it constantly.
(b) The history of animals, plants, and other life forms.
(c) The history of the world as seen through the lense of science.
(d) The study of human nature through stories to see what human beings truly are like.

4. What does Mary tell Tom about the unborn child at the windmill?
(a) That the child has been dead for weeks.
(b) That the child his her father's.
(c) That the child is Freddie Parr's.
(d) That the child is Dick's after all.

5. What is Mary doing at the windmill when Tom finds her?
(a) She jumps so she falls on her stomach to kill her unborn child.
(b) She is talking to the wind as if it were a person.
(c) She is cutting herself with a razor blade.
(d) She is sleeping with Dick.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the old Mary Crick claim she got her child without being pregnant?

3. Price tells Tom Crick of his nightmare about:

4. What World War I battle was Tom's father injured in and saw his brother killed in earlier in the day?

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

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