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

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

3. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
(a) They represented the Gildsey district in parliament.
(b) They ran a famous brewery.
(c) They owned a major textile factory.
(d) They helped drain the marshes by buiding locks and canals.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?

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

3. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?

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

5. What does the phrase "in loco parentis" mean?

(see the answer key)

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