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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33 | Chapter 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?
(a) A conversation with a German POW who says history has ended in 1945.
(b) Hearing about the murder of six million Jews during the war.
(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.

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

3. What does Mary fail to explain to Dick properly, with terrible consequences?
(a) How children are actually made.
(b) That she is truly in love with Freddie.
(c) That she is truly in love with Dick.
(d) That she is truly in love with Tom.

4. How does Harry Crick find out that his son Dick is in love with Mary?
(a) Dick asks how babies are made.
(b) Mary's father, Harold Metcalf, asks him to keep Dick away from Mary.
(c) Dick angrily shouts at Tom to stay away from Mary.
(d) He overhears Dick talking to himself about Mary.

5. What is the historical event that Tom Crick keeps returning to over and over again as he explains that history seems to move in a circle?
(a) The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
(b) The French Revolution of 1789.
(c) The Sarajevo Assassination of 1914.
(d) The Norman Invasion of 1066.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?

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

3. What is the worst thing Tom Crick can imagine?

4. What does Tom notice for the first time when Mary struggles with Freddie Parr's prank?

5. Who says, "explaining's a way of avoiding the facts while you pretend to get near to them?"

(see the answer key)

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