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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 marks the end of Ernest Atkinson's political career?
(a) He sneezes in parliament during a speech by King George V.
(b) He runs as a candidate for the Liberal Party.
(c) He offends the mayor of Gildsey.
(d) He opposes the unionization of dock workers.

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

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

4. Why does Mary tell Dick that she is pregnant with Freddie Parr's child?
(a) She's being silly, but Dick doesn't understand that she is joking.
(b) She tells Dick it isn't his child, sees his anger, and wants to protect Tom.
(c) She wants Dick to make Freddie leave her alone.
(d) She wants to end her love lessons with Dick.

5. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?
(a) Receiving a history book as a secret gift from Mary when he leaves for the war.
(b) Seeing destroyed German cities after World War II.
(c) Hearing about the murder of six million Jews during the war.
(d) A conversation with a German POW who says history has ended in 1945.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what days does Tom stay at home at night because Dick spends the evenings out with Mary?

3. What does Tom Crick's new-coined term "histrionics" refer to?

4. What does Ernest Atkinson do with the three remaining steam ships he owns?

5. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?

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