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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What important phrase does Tom shout to Price just before they part?
(a) All I told you was lies!
(b) Don't let them do it!
(c) Don't become like I am!
(d) Don't forget me!

2. How did Mary's father Harold Metcalf treat Tom's father Harry?
(a) Like a man treats his long-lost brother.
(b) Like a high and mighty squire treats a supplicant serf.
(c) Like a priest treats an unrepentent sinner.
(d) Like an angry father treats his daughter's murderer.

3. How does Freddie Parr's father Jack react to the ruling by the court that Freddie's death was an accident?
(a) He walks out of the court room and is never seen again.
(b) He curses the judge and accuses Tom Crick of killing Freddie.
(c) He goes to sit on the train tracks to commit suicide, but no train appears.
(d) He has a heart attack in the court room and dies on the spot.

4. In chapter 32, what is the event that Dick cannot understand?
(a) Finding the bottle he used to kill Freddie.
(b) His mother's death.
(c) Mary's attempt to teach him about love.
(d) Freddie Parr's death.

5. What does Ernest Atkinson do with the three remaining steam ships he owns?
(a) He sells them to the city of Gildsey for the use of the fire brigade.
(b) He names them after his daughter, Helen I, Helen II, and Helen III.
(c) He converts them into pleasure cruise ships.
(d) He donates them to the army to aid in the war effort.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the boys' bodies does Mary appear to be most interested in?

2. What is the phrase Tom uses about who should not have to prop up whom?

3. What does Ernest Atkinson's maid Jane Shaw think she saw in the old Atkinson townhouse as the brewery was burning?

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

5. During the festivities for the newly crowned King George V, the New Atkinson Brewery is destroyed. How?

(see the answer key)

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