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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. What is the River Tom Crick describes at great length to explain how the landscape of the novel's setting is formed?
(a) The Cam.
(b) The Tyne.
(c) The Ouse.
(d) The Thames.

2. What is NOT one of the emblems of by-gone years that Tom includes in his list of memories he wants Mary to recall?
(a) Fairy tales.
(b) Two crossed ears of barley on ships' bows.
(c) Fireworks over the Fens.
(d) Steam trains.

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

4. What is the name of the supermarket that Mary stole the baby from?
(a) Safeways.
(b) Sainsburys.
(c) Morrisons.
(d) Tesco.

5. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?
(a) A conversation with a German POW who says history has ended in 1945.
(b) Hearing about the murder of six million Jews during the war.
(c) Receiving a history book as a secret gift from Mary when he leaves for the war.
(d) Seeing destroyed German cities after World War II.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a theory that biologists have put forward about how eels reproduce?

2. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?

3. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?

4. What is the object that Dick Crick treats like it is a real person?

5. What game are Tom Crick, Freddie Parr, Peter Baine, and Terry Coe playing with Mary Metcalf and Shirley Alford on the banks of the Hockwell Lode as Dick Crick looks on?

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