1. What is Dick's reaction to the revelation about his birth?
(a) He shouts that he lu-lu-loves Tom.
(b) He laughs, jumps up and down, and cries,
(c) He runs from the room, hides, and then drives off on his motorbike.
(d) He tries to kill Tom with one of the beer bottles.

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

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

4. What does the letter reveal to Tom and Dick about Dick?
(a) That Dick is entitled to Ernest's seat in the British parliament.
(b) That Ernest found Dick in the shrubs near a canal and Helen adopted him.
(c) That he is the child of incest between Ernest and his daughter Helen.
(d) That he is the heir to a vast fortune hidden in the Fens.

5. What does Tom Crick think the French really celebrate on Bastille Day when they mark the beginning of the French Revolution?
(a) An event that was not nearly as important at the time as it is now made out to be.
(b) The power of the mob over government.
(c) An event that never took place.
(d) The beginning of the Napoleonic Empire.