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

2. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?
(a) Physiological.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Ideological.
(d) Theological.

3. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?
(a) Ex Aqua Fermentum.
(b) Sine Qua Non.
(c) E Pluribus Unum.
(d) Quid Pro Quo.

4. What does Tom compare his father to as every day he sees him trudge back and forth along the canal?
(a) A caged wolf.
(b) A tethered dog.
(c) A chained falcon.
(d) A blind ox.

5. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
(a) They helped drain the marshes by buiding locks and canals.
(b) They owned a major textile factory.
(c) They ran a famous brewery.
(d) They represented the Gildsey district in parliament.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?

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

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