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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ernest Atkinson, Tom's grandfather, do that marks the beginning of a long list of scandalous behavior?
(a) He get engaged to a poor journalist's daughter without his parents' permission.
(b) He proclaims that he believes Sarah Atkinson's ghost haunts his bedroom.
(c) He bathes in a public fountain with some of his Cambridge classmates.
(d) He closes the Atkinson brewery and begins selling soda instead.

2. Who tells Harry Crick the truth about Freddie Parr and Dick?
(a) Dick.
(b) The ghost of Sarah Atkinson.
(c) Mary.
(d) Tom.

3. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?
(a) He thinks Tom is lying to the class.
(b) He thinks Tom is senile.
(c) He hates school in general, and Tom is easy to pick on.
(d) He thinks history is imaginary and doesn't matter.

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

5. Tom dislikes the pike because...
(a) Pikes are killers and scares him.
(b) The pike reminds him of Dick.
(c) Pikes were swarming around Freddie Parr's body.
(d) The pike smells awful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?

2. What causes the soldiers at the 1915 Royal Cambrideshire Militia parade to stumble out of formation?

3. Who dies of the flu?

4. What is the way out everybody in Price's nightmare uses except for Price?

5. What World War I battle was Tom's father injured in and saw his brother killed in earlier in the day?

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