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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 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 tears up lumps of grass and angrily throws them around.
(d) He laughs uncontrollably.
2. What does the phrase "in loco parentis" mean?
(a) In place of the parents.
(b) Placed in parentheses.
(c) According to the logic of the parents.
(d) Because of parental insanity.
3. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?
(a) He hates school in general, and Tom is easy to pick on.
(b) He thinks history is imaginary and doesn't matter.
(c) He thinks Tom is lying to the class.
(d) He thinks Tom is senile.
4. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?
(a) A conversation with a German POW who says history has ended in 1945.
(b) Hearing about the murder of six million Jews during the war.
(c) Seeing destroyed German cities after World War II.
(d) Receiving a history book as a secret gift from Mary when he leaves for the war.
5. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
(a) Passive.
(b) Aloof.
(c) Eager.
(d) Curious.
Short Answer Questions
1. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?
2. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?
3. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?
4. 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?
5. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?
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