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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 is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?
(a) The Crimean Victory.
(b) The Golden Jubilee.
(c) The Empress of India.
(d) The Grand '51.

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

3. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?
(a) St. Mary.
(b) St. Gertrude of the Marshes.
(c) St. Julian of Norwich.
(d) St. Gunnhilda.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom Crick's new-coined term "histrionics" refer to?

2. What does Tom dream that he considers telling the headmaster about?

3. 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?

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. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?

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