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

2. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?
(a) She is caught on the second floor of her house when it burns down.
(b) Her husband hits her in the head in a fit of rage, leaving her a living shell of her former self.
(c) She loses her long-awaited first child at its birth.
(d) Her husband dies and his relatives take all his money from her, leaving her destitute.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?

2. What does the phrase "in loco parentis" mean?

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

4. 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?

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

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