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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 is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?
(a) The Crimean Victory.
(b) The Golden Jubilee.
(c) The Grand '51.
(d) The Empress of India.

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

3. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?
(a) The mud felt the same and eels swam in the pools.
(b) The pretty girls in the town were disdainful of him.
(c) The men were silent and preferred to keep to themselves.
(d) The army served the same ale the Atkinsons brewed in Gildsey.

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

5. What does Tom dream that he considers telling the headmaster about?
(a) He dreams of the headmaster drowning in a canal.
(b) He dreams of Mary as she was when she was 15.
(c) He dreams of Price as the Prime Minister of Britain.
(d) He dreams of a woman wailing in a supermarket.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the difference between animals and humans?

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

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

5. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

(see the answer key)

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