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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 secret does Tom reveal to his students about Lewis Scott, the headmaster of the school?
(a) The headmaster was once arrested for cross-dressing.
(b) The headmaster keeps whisky bottles in his filing cabinet.
(c) The headmaster cheated to receive his university degree.
(d) The headmaster is having an affair with his secretary, Miss Plum.

2. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?
(a) They grow the best malt barley for beer brewing in the area.
(b) An ancestor saves Queen Elizabeth, is knighted and given a royal commission.
(c) They invent the steam engine.
(d) They return rich from an exploration to the Americas.

3. 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?
(a) The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
(b) The Sarajevo Assassination of 1914.
(c) The Norman Invasion of 1066.
(d) The French Revolution of 1789.

4. What does Tom compare his father to as every day he sees him trudge back and forth along the canal?
(a) A tethered dog.
(b) A chained falcon.
(c) A caged wolf.
(d) A blind ox.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?

3. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?

4. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?

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

(see the answer key)

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