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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. How does Harry Crick find out that his son Dick is in love with Mary?
(a) He overhears Dick talking to himself about Mary.
(b) Dick asks how babies are made.
(c) Dick angrily shouts at Tom to stay away from Mary.
(d) Mary's father, Harold Metcalf, asks him to keep Dick away from Mary.

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ernest Atkinson, Tom's grandfather, do that marks the beginning of a long list of scandalous behavior?

2. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?

3. Tom confronts Price about his frequent interruptions during class. What question does Price's reluctance about history boil down to?

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

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

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