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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What to Tom and Mary ask Martha to help them with?
(a) Finding a key to Dick's chest.
(b) Poison for Dick.
(c) An abortion for Mary.
(d) A way to save Mary's baby.

2. What is the name of the Cricks' doctor?
(a) Dr. Fiddler.
(b) Dr. Higginbotham.
(c) Dr. Atlee.
(d) Dr. Bright.

3. Who dies of the flu?
(a) Ernest Atkinson.
(b) Harry Crick.
(c) Jack Parr.
(d) Helen Crick.

4. What is Tom Crick's response to Mary's claim that God speaks to her.
(a) God does not speak anymore.
(b) God is imaginary.
(c) God does not exist.
(d) God never spoke to anyone.

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

6. Why does Harry Crick abandon his cottage by the Atkinson lock?
(a) He sees the ghost of Sarah Atkinson.
(b) He moves to a retirement home near Tom.
(c) The River Leem floods and destroys it.
(d) He takes a job in Gildsey as a janitor.

7. When Tom and Mary take the baby back to the car, Tom is afraid that the silent baby is what?
(a) Not real.
(b) In a coma.
(c) Dead with shock.
(d) Suffering interior injuries.

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

9. How does Price feel about helping his drunk teacher Tom Crick once they are out on the street outside the pub?
(a) Overwhelmed.
(b) Embarrassed.
(c) Superior.
(d) Amused.

10. What is the way out everybody in Price's nightmare uses except for Price?
(a) Suicide pills.
(b) The classroom window.
(c) Turning themselves into more black dogs.
(d) Covering their ears.

11. Why does Tom Crick apologize to Price outside the pub?
(a) Tom doesn't really know either.
(b) Tom thinks he wasted the students' time in his history class.
(c) Tom promised Price a lift but now is too drunk to drive.
(d) Tom shouts at the barman and has them both kicked out of the pub.

12. What does Tom tell Dick about Mary's baby?
(a) That the baby is Dick's.
(b) That it's Dick's fault the baby died.
(c) That the baby really was Freddie Parr's.
(d) That the baby was Harold Metcalf's.

13. What's the "old, old feeling" that Tom Crick tells Price everybody has always felt?
(a) That nobody really understand anyone.
(b) That everything might amount to nothing.
(c) That maybe there is no God.
(d) That life must have meaning.

14. What does Tom think is a superstition people believed in "once upon a time"?
(a) God.
(b) That history matters.
(c) The end of the world.
(d) The goodness of human kind.

15. What does the letter reveal to Tom and Dick about Dick?
(a) That Dick is entitled to Ernest's seat in the British parliament.
(b) That Ernest found Dick in the shrubs near a canal and Helen adopted him.
(c) That he is the child of incest between Ernest and his daughter Helen.
(d) That he is the heir to a vast fortune hidden in the Fens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Harry Crick have to wait until he is rescued?

2. Who turns out to be Ernest's other child?

3. While Martha locks herself in with Mary, she asks Tom to do what outside?

4. Where did the stuffed pike come from?

5. While Harry Crick recovers from his ordeal, whom does Mary remind him of?

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