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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 Crick's new-coined term "histrionics" refer to?
(a) Throwing an angry fit because what has happened is history and cannot be changed.
(b) Being hysterically enthusiastic about something.
(c) Changing history through technology.
(d) The combined study of history and economics.

2. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?
(a) Civics.
(b) Liberal Arts.
(c) General Studies.
(d) Geography.

3. What World War I battle was Tom's father injured in and saw his brother killed in earlier in the day?
(a) Ypres.
(b) Verdun.
(c) Marne.
(d) Somme.

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

5. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?
(a) E Pluribus Unum.
(b) Sine Qua Non.
(c) Quid Pro Quo.
(d) Ex Aqua Fermentum.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?

2. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?

3. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?

4. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?

5. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?

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