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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 was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?
(a) His ability to smuggle liquor out of an American military base nearby.
(b) His tendency to get into fights with the local barman.
(c) His heckling of young women who worked in the fields.
(d) His habit of stealing livestock off the river barges.

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

3. Which boy is most aggressive about asking the two girls to take their clothes off?
(a) Freddie Parr.
(b) Dick Crick.
(c) Tom Crick.
(d) Peter Baine.

4. What does Freddie Parr do to Mary as revenge for setting him up to lose the competition because she knew he couldn't swim?
(a) He holds her under water until she nearly drowns.
(b) He slips a large eel into her knickers.
(c) He steals all her clothes and forces her to walk home naked.
(d) He rolls her in wet mud until she is totally covered by it.

5. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?
(a) He thinks Tom is lying to the class.
(b) He hates school in general, and Tom is easy to pick on.
(c) He thinks history is imaginary and doesn't matter.
(d) He thinks Tom is senile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom Crick find in the river that he thinks caused the bruise that killed Freddie Parr?

2. What is the great mystery about the eel that nobody has been able to explain?

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

4. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?

5. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?

(see the answer key)

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