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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. How did Tom's parents meet?
(a) His father delivered a crate of eels to the house where Tom's mother lived.
(b) His father came home as a war hero and his mother was the prettiest girl at the parade.
(c) His father heard her shouting one day because she'd sprained an ankle and rescued her.
(d) His father was recovering from World War I in a mental asylum where his mother was a nurse.

2. How does Tom react to Mary's statement that "everything has changed" with Freddie's death.
(a) He slaps Mary and shouts,
(b) He says nothing and watches Mary run off into the night.
(c) He laughs uncontrollably.
(d) He tears up lumps of grass and angrily throws them around.

3. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?
(a) St. Julian of Norwich.
(b) St. Gertrude of the Marshes.
(c) St. Gunnhilda.
(d) St. Mary.

4. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?
(a) Her husband dies and his relatives take all his money from her, leaving her destitute.
(b) She loses her long-awaited first child at its birth.
(c) She is caught on the second floor of her house when it burns down.
(d) Her husband hits her in the head in a fit of rage, leaving her a living shell of her former self.

5. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?
(a) 99 years.
(b) 92 years.
(c) 68 years.
(d) 37 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?

2. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?

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

4. What World War I battle was Tom's father injured in and saw his brother killed in earlier in the day?

5. What is the historical event that Tom Crick keeps returning to over and over again as he explains that history seems to move in a circle?

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