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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. On what days does Tom stay at home at night because Dick spends the evenings out with Mary?
(a) Monday and Thursday.
(b) Wednesday and Saturday.
(c) Wednesday and Sunday.
(d) Tuesday and Friday.

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

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

4. What sparks Tom Crick's interest in the mating habits of eels?
(a) His memory of an eel in Mary's knickers and his need to take his mind off Mary being with Dick.
(b) His desire to show his own curiosity is as strong as Mary's.
(c) Mary asks him to look it up because she wants to use it as an example to teach Dick about sex.
(d) Mary tells Tom if he can find out the truth about how eels mate, she'll stop her love lessons with Dick.

5. Who says, "explaining's a way of avoiding the facts while you pretend to get near to them?"
(a) Lewis Scott.
(b) Price.
(c) Mary Crick.
(d) Tom Crick.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one of the books Tom Crick reads that he finds in the trove of books collected by his great-aunts Louisa and Dora?

3. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?

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

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

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