1. What secret does Tom reveal to his students about Lewis Scott, the headmaster of the school?
(a) The headmaster keeps whisky bottles in his filing cabinet.
(b) The headmaster cheated to receive his university degree.
(c) The headmaster is having an affair with his secretary, Miss Plum.
(d) The headmaster was once arrested for cross-dressing.

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

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

4. How did Tom's parents meet?
(a) His father heard her shouting one day because she'd sprained an ankle and rescued her.
(b) His father was recovering from World War I in a mental asylum where his mother was a nurse.
(c) His father delivered a crate of eels to the house where Tom's mother lived.
(d) His father came home as a war hero and his mother was the prettiest girl at the parade.

5. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?
(a) The army served the same ale the Atkinsons brewed in Gildsey.
(b) The pretty girls in the town were disdainful of him.
(c) The mud felt the same and eels swam in the pools.
(d) The men were silent and preferred to keep to themselves.