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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the soldiers at the 1915 Royal Cambrideshire Militia parade to stumble out of formation?
(a) Drinking Coronation Ale.
(b) Heckling by Ernest Atkinson.
(c) The sound of a beer barge foghorn.
(d) Helen Atkinson's beauty.

2. Which of the following is NOT in the chest Tom and Dick open in the attic?
(a) A letter from Ernest Atkinson to Dick.
(b) A portrait picture of their mother when she was young and beautiful.
(c) Four thick notebooks that are Ernest Atkinson's journals.
(d) Eleven bottles of Coronation Ale.

3. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
(a) They represented the Gildsey district in parliament.
(b) They ran a famous brewery.
(c) They owned a major textile factory.
(d) They helped drain the marshes by buiding locks and canals.

4. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?
(a) How?
(b) Who?
(c) Why?
(d) When?

5. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the difference between animals and humans?
(a) Animals don't kill each other out of jealousy.
(b) Humans tell each other stories.
(c) Humans have the ability to forgive each other.
(d) Humans can plan for the future.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom dislikes the pike because...

2. What is the phrase Tom uses about who should not have to prop up whom?

3. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?

4. How does Tom react to Mary's statement that "everything has changed" with Freddie's death.

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

(see the answer key)

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