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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 | Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Henry Crick, Tom's father, is obsessed with one question about Freddie's death that he repeats over and over again. What is it?
(a) Who killed Freddie?
(b) Could he have saved Freddie?
(c) Why did Freddie have to die?
(d) How did Freddie die?

2. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?
(a) The mud felt the same and eels swam in the pools.
(b) The army served the same ale the Atkinsons brewed in Gildsey.
(c) The men were silent and preferred to keep to themselves.
(d) The pretty girls in the town were disdainful of him.

3. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?
(a) Ex Aqua Fermentum.
(b) Sine Qua Non.
(c) Quid Pro Quo.
(d) E Pluribus Unum.

4. How does Tom react to Mary's statement that "everything has changed" with Freddie's death.
(a) He slaps Mary and shouts,
(b) He tears up lumps of grass and angrily throws them around.
(c) He says nothing and watches Mary run off into the night.
(d) He laughs uncontrollably.

5. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?
(a) They both take the same train to school every day.
(b) They both grew up without a mother.
(c) They both escape to the ruined windmill together in the afternoons.
(d) They both have odd older brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?

2. What is the object that Dick Crick treats like it is a real person?

3. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?

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

5. After Freddie's death, Mary reacts in a drastic way. What does she do?

(see the answer key)

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