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

2. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
(a) Eager.
(b) Aloof.
(c) Passive.
(d) Curious.

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

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

5. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?
(a) Tom Crick himself.
(b) Harold Metcalf.
(c) Freddie Parr.
(d) Dick Crick.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Tom react to Mary's statement that "everything has changed" with Freddie's death.

5. How does Harry Crick find out that his son Dick is in love with Mary?

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