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

2. 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 is caught on the second floor of her house when it burns down.
(c) Her husband hits her in the head in a fit of rage, leaving her a living shell of her former self.
(d) She loses her long-awaited first child at its birth.

3. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?
(a) The Singing Swans of Wash Fen Mere.
(b) The Monk of Sudchurch.
(c) The Grim Hound of Gargoyle Hall.
(d) The Headless Ferryman of Staithe.

4. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the difference between animals and humans?
(a) Humans tell each other stories.
(b) Humans have the ability to forgive each other.
(c) Animals don't kill each other out of jealousy.
(d) Humans can plan for the future.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?

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

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

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

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