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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25 | Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?
(a) Trout.
(b) Salmon.
(c) Carp.
(d) Eel.

2. The headmaster of the school where Tom Crick teaches history thinks Tom should retire from his job. Why?
(a) Tom Crick has stopped teaching the syllabus.
(b) All of the above.
(c) The headmaster does not like Tom Crick.
(d) History will be eliminated from the curriculum.

3. During the festivities for the newly crowned King George V, the New Atkinson Brewery is destroyed. How?
(a) A delivery truck rams one of the main pillars and collapses the building.
(b) A fire nobody can explain.
(c) An accidental explosion in the boiler room.
(d) An overexcited mob looking for more ale.

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

5. The effects of Ernest's special ale caused all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) The near-collision of two pleasure boats whose steersmen had drunk too much.
(b) Wild improvisations by the marching band.
(c) The mass desertion of the army troops stationed in the town to the taverns.
(d) The premature setting off of the evening's fireworks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the River Tom Crick describes at great length to explain how the landscape of the novel's setting is formed?

2. What does Ernest Atkinson, Tom's grandfather, do that marks the beginning of a long list of scandalous behavior?

3. What does the phrase "in loco parentis" mean?

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

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

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