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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. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?
(a) Dick Crick.
(b) Harold Metcalf.
(c) Tom Crick himself.
(d) Freddie Parr.

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

3. 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 dies and his relatives take all his money from her, leaving her destitute.
(c) She is caught on the second floor of her house when it burns down.
(d) Her husband hits her in the head in a fit of rage, leaving her a living shell of her former self.

4. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?
(a) Quicksand.
(b) Phlegm.
(c) An obese matron.
(d) Pudding.

5. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?
(a) That she is about to run off to London to hide from her father.
(b) That she saw Freddie attack Dick the night before by the river bridge.
(c) That she is pregnant from Tom, but told Dick it was Freddie's child.
(d) That she pushed Freddie into the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?

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

3. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?

4. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?

5. What secret does Tom reveal to his students about Lewis Scott, the headmaster of the school?

(see the answer key)

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