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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the worst thing Tom Crick can imagine?
(a) Nuclear weapons destroy the earth.
(b) Mary stops loving him.
(c) Humans stop being curious.
(d) Humans forget their own history.

2. 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?

3. 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 keeps whisky bottles in his filing cabinet.
(c) The headmaster is having an affair with his secretary, Miss Plum.
(d) The headmaster cheated to receive his university degree.

4. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?
(a) Quicksand.
(b) Pudding.
(c) Phlegm.
(d) An obese matron.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?

2. What important phrase does Tom shout to Price just before they part?

3. What is in the chest in the attic that Helen bestows upon Dick?

4. How does Harry Crick find out that his son Dick is in love with Mary?

5. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?

(see the answer key)

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