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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a function of phlegm that Tom mentions in chapter 51?
(a) Insulating.
(b) Protecting.
(c) Lubricating.
(d) Cleansing.

2. Tom thinks that progress leads...
(a) Nowhere.
(b) Back to where we started.
(c) To a brighter future.
(d) To forgetting.

3. What is the question Price asks Tom during their evening spent together that shakes Tom most deeply?
(a) Whether Tom even would want to bring children into the world as it is.
(b) Whether Tom isn't actually happy about having been fired.
(c) Whether Tom truly loves Mary.
(d) Whether Tom has ever considered ending it all.

4. What does Tom compare migrating geese to in the winter of 1943?
(a) Mary.
(b) Nazi parades.
(c) Sword tips pointing south.
(d) Bomber formations.

5. Tom dislikes the pike because...
(a) The pike smells awful.
(b) The pike reminds him of Dick.
(c) Pikes are killers and scares him.
(d) Pikes were swarming around Freddie Parr's body.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary tell Tom that she does not tell the judge?

2. What is Martha Clay's pet?

3. Who turns out to be Ernest's other child?

4. What reason does the headmaster give the students for Tom's retirement from the school?

5. What are Mary and Tom waiting for the last time they lie together at the windmill?

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