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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?
(a) He hates school in general, and Tom is easy to pick on.
(b) He thinks history is imaginary and doesn't matter.
(c) He thinks Tom is senile.
(d) He thinks Tom is lying to the class.

2. What does Freddie Parr do to Mary as revenge for setting him up to lose the competition because she knew he couldn't swim?
(a) He holds her under water until she nearly drowns.
(b) He slips a large eel into her knickers.
(c) He rolls her in wet mud until she is totally covered by it.
(d) He steals all her clothes and forces her to walk home naked.

3. What does Tom Crick's new-coined term "histrionics" refer to?
(a) The combined study of history and economics.
(b) Throwing an angry fit because what has happened is history and cannot be changed.
(c) Changing history through technology.
(d) Being hysterically enthusiastic about something.

4. Which of the boys' bodies does Mary appear to be most interested in?
(a) Terry Coe.
(b) Dick Crick.
(c) Tom Crick.
(d) Freddie Parr.

5. Who hunted in Greenwich Park, where Tom and Mary sit in the evenings with their dog?
(a) King Henry VIII.
(b) The Duke of Wellington.
(c) Queen Anne.
(d) Sir Walter Raleigh.

6. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?
(a) Harold Metcalf.
(b) Freddie Parr.
(c) Dick Crick.
(d) Tom Crick himself.

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

8. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?
(a) An ancestor saves Queen Elizabeth, is knighted and given a royal commission.
(b) They return rich from an exploration to the Americas.
(c) They grow the best malt barley for beer brewing in the area.
(d) They invent the steam engine.

9. What causes the soldiers at the 1915 Royal Cambrideshire Militia parade to stumble out of formation?
(a) Helen Atkinson's beauty.
(b) The sound of a beer barge foghorn.
(c) Drinking Coronation Ale.
(d) Heckling by Ernest Atkinson.

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

11. What is Tom Crick's response to this revelation?
(a) He turns Freddie Parr in to the police constable.
(b) He starts flirting intensely with Mary to outdo all the other boys.
(c) He reads history books when Dick is out wooing Mary.
(d) He begins to be afraid of Dick.

12. What does Ernest Atkinson convert his manor Kessling Hall into?
(a) A museum in honor of Sarah Atkinson.
(b) A hospital for the wounded of World War I.
(c) An asylum for the mentally ill.
(d) A school for orphans.

13. Who says, "explaining's a way of avoiding the facts while you pretend to get near to them?"
(a) Mary Crick.
(b) Price.
(c) Lewis Scott.
(d) Tom Crick.

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

15. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?
(a) How?
(b) Who?
(c) Why?
(d) When?

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?

2. Tom confronts Price about his frequent interruptions during class. What question does Price's reluctance about history boil down to?

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

4. What does Tom Crick think the French really celebrate on Bastille Day when they mark the beginning of the French Revolution?

5. What did Johannes Schmidt conclude about the difference between the European eel and the American eel?

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