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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. 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.

2. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?
(a) She loses her long-awaited first child at its birth.
(b) Her husband hits her in the head in a fit of rage, leaving her a living shell of her former self.
(c) Her husband dies and his relatives take all his money from her, leaving her destitute.
(d) She is caught on the second floor of her house when it burns down.

3. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?
(a) Who?
(b) Why?
(c) How?
(d) When?

4. What does the phrase "in loco parentis" mean?
(a) According to the logic of the parents.
(b) Placed in parentheses.
(c) Because of parental insanity.
(d) In place of the parents.

5. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
(a) Aloof.
(b) Curious.
(c) Eager.
(d) Passive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?

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

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

4. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?

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

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