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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33 | Chapter 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Harry Crick find out that his son Dick is in love with Mary?
(a) Mary's father, Harold Metcalf, asks him to keep Dick away from Mary.
(b) Dick angrily shouts at Tom to stay away from Mary.
(c) He overhears Dick talking to himself about Mary.
(d) Dick asks how babies are made.

2. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?
(a) Hearing about the murder of six million Jews during the war.
(b) A conversation with a German POW who says history has ended in 1945.
(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.

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

4. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the difference between animals and humans?
(a) Humans can plan for the future.
(b) Animals don't kill each other out of jealousy.
(c) Humans tell each other stories.
(d) Humans have the ability to forgive each other.

5. What does Mary fail to explain to Dick properly, with terrible consequences?
(a) That she is truly in love with Dick.
(b) How children are actually made.
(c) That she is truly in love with Freddie.
(d) That she is truly in love with Tom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?

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

3. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?

4. What does Tom Crick mean by the term "Natural History"?

5. What does Tom notice for the first time when Mary struggles with Freddie Parr's prank?

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