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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 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) They invent the steam engine.
(c) An ancestor saves Queen Elizabeth, is knighted and given a royal commission.
(d) They return rich from an exploration to the Americas.

2. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?
(a) The growling of an angry beast.
(b) The thudding of his own heart.
(c) A bomber airplane.
(d) Machine gun fire.

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

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 blind ox.
(c) A caged wolf.
(d) A chained falcon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What World War I battle was Tom's father injured in and saw his brother killed in earlier in the day?

2. How did Tom's parents meet?

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

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

5. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

(see the answer key)

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