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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 | Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?
(a) Hearing about the murder of six million Jews during the war.
(b) Receiving a history book as a secret gift from Mary when he leaves for the war.
(c) A conversation with a German POW who says history has ended in 1945.
(d) Seeing destroyed German cities after World War II.

2. After Freddie's death, Mary reacts in a drastic way. What does she do?
(a) She locks herself into her father's house for three years.
(b) She strangles Tom's favorite kitten.
(c) She runs away to London.
(d) She attempts to commit suicide by drowning herself.

3. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
(a) Aloof.
(b) Passive.
(c) Eager.
(d) Curious.

4. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?
(a) Theological.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Ideological.
(d) Physiological.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What about Mary strikes Tom when he returns from Germany at the end of World War II to marry her?

2. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?

3. What is the name of the student Tom Crick butts heads with the most?

4. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?

5. What is Henry Crick's occupation?

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