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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the stuffed pike come from?
(a) It was a wedding present for Dick and Helen Crick.
(b) Dick caught it.
(c) Tom caught it and gave it to Dick for his birthday.
(d) Dick never tells anyone.

2. What important phrase does Tom shout to Price just before they part?
(a) All I told you was lies!
(b) Don't forget me!
(c) Don't become like I am!
(d) Don't let them do it!

3. Tom confronts Price about his frequent interruptions during class. What question does Price's reluctance about history boil down to?
(a) How many more history lessons will he have to sit through?
(b) Does knowing history help change anything?
(c) Is history not just a collection of stories that keeps the powerful in power?
(d) How can anyone know what really happened?

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

5. What is the title Ernest Atkinson gives Dick in the letter?
(a) Saviour of the World.
(b) Most Beloved Grandson.
(c) Earl of Gildsey.
(d) An expletive.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mary's father Harold Metcalf treat Tom's father Harry?

2. What it the brand of Dick's motorbike?

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

4. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?

5. What is it that Tom decides he must find at all cost?

(see the answer key)

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