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

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

3. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?
(a) He thinks history is imaginary and doesn't matter.
(b) He thinks Tom is lying to the class.
(c) He thinks Tom is senile.
(d) He hates school in general, and Tom is easy to pick on.

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

5. 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 cheated to receive his university degree.
(c) The headmaster is having an affair with his secretary, Miss Plum.
(d) The headmaster keeps whisky bottles in his filing cabinet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?

5. How did Tom's parents meet?

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