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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21 | Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tom eventually arrange to marry Mary, even though her father Harold Metcalf hates him?
(a) Tom comes home a war hero, and Harold Metcalf is too embarrassed to say no.
(b) Tom's father Harry asks Harold for permission in the place of his son.
(c) Tom breaks into the Metcalf home at night and runs off with Mary.
(d) Mary ignores her father and elopes with Tom.

2. What is Henry Crick's occupation?
(a) Lock keeper at the Atkinson Lock.
(b) Brewmaster at the Atkinson Brewery.
(c) Barge captain on the River Ouse.
(d) History teacher.

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

4. What is the name of the student Tom Crick butts heads with the most?
(a) George.
(b) Dick.
(c) Jerome.
(d) Price.

5. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
(a) Passive.
(b) Curious.
(c) Aloof.
(d) Eager.

Short Answer Questions

1. The effects of Ernest's special ale caused all of the following EXCEPT:

2. How does Freddie Parr's father Jack react to the ruling by the court that Freddie's death was an accident?

3. What does Tom dream that he considers telling the headmaster about?

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

5. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?

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