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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?
(a) They both grew up without a mother.
(b) They both have odd older brothers.
(c) They both escape to the ruined windmill together in the afternoons.
(d) They both take the same train to school every day.

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

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

4. On what days does Tom stay at home at night because Dick spends the evenings out with Mary?
(a) Monday and Thursday.
(b) Tuesday and Friday.
(c) Wednesday and Saturday.
(d) Wednesday and Sunday.

5. Which boy is most aggressive about asking the two girls to take their clothes off?
(a) Dick Crick.
(b) Tom Crick.
(c) Freddie Parr.
(d) Peter Baine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the catastrophe that hits Europe in January 1937?

2. What is the title Ernest Atkinson gives Dick in the letter?

3. What is the question Price asks Tom during their evening spent together that shakes Tom most deeply?

4. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?

5. What does Ernest Atkinson, Tom's grandfather, do that marks the beginning of a long list of scandalous behavior?

(see the answer key)

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