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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) Freddie Parr.
(b) Dick Crick.
(c) Tom Crick himself.
(d) Harold Metcalf.

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

3. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?
(a) The Grim Hound of Gargoyle Hall.
(b) The Singing Swans of Wash Fen Mere.
(c) The Headless Ferryman of Staithe.
(d) The Monk of Sudchurch.

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

5. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?
(a) Geography.
(b) General Studies.
(c) Liberal Arts.
(d) Civics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom compare his father to as every day he sees him trudge back and forth along the canal?

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

4. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?

5. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?

(see the answer key)

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