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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) Seeing destroyed German cities after World War II.
(c) Receiving a history book as a secret gift from Mary when he leaves for the war.
(d) Hearing about the murder of six million Jews during the war.

2. What is the worst thing Tom Crick can imagine?
(a) Humans stop being curious.
(b) Mary stops loving him.
(c) Humans forget their own history.
(d) Nuclear weapons destroy the earth.

3. 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.

4. What does Ernest Atkinson, Tom's grandfather, do that marks the beginning of a long list of scandalous behavior?
(a) He proclaims that he believes Sarah Atkinson's ghost haunts his bedroom.
(b) He closes the Atkinson brewery and begins selling soda instead.
(c) He bathes in a public fountain with some of his Cambridge classmates.
(d) He get engaged to a poor journalist's daughter without his parents' permission.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about the scene at the Lode does NOT remind Tom of the later scene of Freddie Parr's death?

2. What is the question Price asks Tom during their evening spent together that shakes Tom most deeply?

3. What sparks Tom Crick's interest in the mating habits of eels?

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

5. What is Tom Crick's response to this revelation?

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