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

2. What is the question Price asks Tom during their evening spent together that shakes Tom most deeply?
(a) Whether Tom has ever considered ending it all.
(b) Whether Tom truly loves Mary.
(c) Whether Tom isn't actually happy about having been fired.
(d) Whether Tom even would want to bring children into the world as it is.

3. What does Tom dream that he considers telling the headmaster about?
(a) He dreams of a woman wailing in a supermarket.
(b) He dreams of Mary as she was when she was 15.
(c) He dreams of the headmaster drowning in a canal.
(d) He dreams of Price as the Prime Minister of Britain.

4. Where does Tom put the bottle that he found drifting in the water after Freddie Parr's death?
(a) Out by the road, where he hopes the police constable will see it.
(b) He accidentally leaves it on the kitchen table.
(c) In Dick's room, where Dick would see it.
(d) He ties it to the tail pipe of Dick's motorbike.

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