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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tom compares Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to what at the eve of the French Revolution?
(a) Adam and Eve on the day the serpent came.
(b) The French people's father and wicked step-mother.
(c) Him and Mary.
(d) Two scared rabbits trapped in a hole.

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

3. What does Tom compare his father to as every day he sees him trudge back and forth along the canal?
(a) A tethered dog.
(b) A blind ox.
(c) A caged wolf.
(d) A chained falcon.

4. What is the catastrophe that hits Europe in January 1937?
(a) A flu epidemic.
(b) Word War II begins.
(c) A series of catastrophic floods.
(d) A record cold winter.

5. Tom thinks Mary cannot overcome her insanity because...
(a) He does not love her enough.
(b) There is no cure for Alzheimer's.
(c) Brain chemistry is destiny.
(d) She keeps reliving the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom react to Mary's statement that "everything has changed" with Freddie's death.

2. What about the scene at the Lode does NOT remind Tom of the later scene of Freddie Parr's death?

3. Henry Crick, Tom's father, is obsessed with one question about Freddie's death that he repeats over and over again. What is it?

4. What it the brand of Dick's motorbike?

5. What does Tom compare migrating geese to in the winter of 1943?

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