Waterland Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Waterland Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?
(a) Geography.
(b) Civics.
(c) Liberal Arts.
(d) General Studies.

2. Tom Crick's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?
(a) She began to scream at odd times of the night.
(b) She has developed Alzheimer's disease.
(c) She stole a baby from a stroller in a supermarket.
(d) Tom Crick hit her over the head and she lost her mind.

3. What does Tom dream that he considers telling the headmaster about?
(a) He dreams of the headmaster drowning in a canal.
(b) He dreams of a woman wailing in a supermarket.
(c) He dreams of Price as the Prime Minister of Britain.
(d) He dreams of Mary as she was when she was 15.

4. What is the agreement between Helen and Ernest Atkinson in exchange for Ernest allowing Helen to marry Harry Crick?
(a) That Helen will find a way to assuage Sarah Atkinson's ghost.
(b) That Helen will become a nurse at the Kessling Hall asylum.
(c) That Helen will help Ernest commit suicide.
(d) That Helen will have Ernest's child.

5. What did Johannes Schmidt conclude about the difference between the European eel and the American eel?
(a) The European eel has far more offspring.
(b) The American eel eats its young, whereas the European eel does not.
(c) The American eel has a shorter lifespan.
(d) There is no difference, genetically.

6. What secret does Tom reveal to his students about Lewis Scott, the headmaster of the school?
(a) The headmaster keeps whisky bottles in his filing cabinet.
(b) The headmaster was once arrested for cross-dressing.
(c) The headmaster cheated to receive his university degree.
(d) The headmaster is having an affair with his secretary, Miss Plum.

7. 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) Mary ignores her father and elopes with Tom.
(d) Tom breaks into the Metcalf home at night and runs off with Mary.

8. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"
(a) Cicero.
(b) Heraclitus of Ephesus.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Dionysius the Areopagite.

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

10. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?
(a) 92 years.
(b) 37 years.
(c) 99 years.
(d) 68 years.

11. What World War I battle was Tom's father injured in and saw his brother killed in earlier in the day?
(a) Marne.
(b) Somme.
(c) Ypres.
(d) Verdun.

12. 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.

13. 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 pretty girls in the town were disdainful of him.
(d) The men were silent and preferred to keep to themselves.

14. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
(a) They ran a famous brewery.
(b) They owned a major textile factory.
(c) They helped drain the marshes by buiding locks and canals.
(d) They represented the Gildsey district in parliament.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Tom put the bottle that he found drifting in the water after Freddie Parr's death?

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

4. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?

5. What causes the soldiers at the 1915 Royal Cambrideshire Militia parade to stumble out of formation?

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