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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 | Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom compare his father to as every day he sees him trudge back and forth along the canal?
(a) A tethered dog.
(b) A blind ox.
(c) A chained falcon.
(d) A caged wolf.

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 sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?
(a) Ideological.
(b) Physiological.
(c) Theological.
(d) Psychological.

4. 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) 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) Seeing destroyed German cities after World War II.

5. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?
(a) That she saw Freddie attack Dick the night before by the river bridge.
(b) That she is about to run off to London to hide from her father.
(c) That she is pregnant from Tom, but told Dick it was Freddie's child.
(d) That she pushed Freddie into the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?

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

3. What does Tom dream that he considers telling the headmaster about?

4. What secret does Tom reveal to his students about Lewis Scott, the headmaster of the school?

5. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?

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