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

2. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?
(a) He sells the Water Transport Company.
(b) He sells Kessling Hall, their estate.
(c) He takes a ruinous Grand Tour of Europe.
(d) He closes the Atkinson brewery.

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

4. 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.

5. What is Tom Crick's response to this revelation?
(a) He turns Freddie Parr in to the police constable.
(b) He reads history books when Dick is out wooing Mary.
(c) He starts flirting intensely with Mary to outdo all the other boys.
(d) He begins to be afraid of Dick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?

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

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

5. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?

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