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

2. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?
(a) His ability to smuggle liquor out of an American military base nearby.
(b) His heckling of young women who worked in the fields.
(c) His habit of stealing livestock off the river barges.
(d) His tendency to get into fights with the local barman.

3. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?
(a) Salmon.
(b) Eel.
(c) Trout.
(d) Carp.

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

5. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?
(a) St. Julian of Norwich.
(b) St. Mary.
(c) St. Gunnhilda.
(d) St. Gertrude of the Marshes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the inquest decide was the cause of Freddie Parr's death?

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

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

4. How does Tom eventually arrange to marry Mary, even though her father Harold Metcalf hates him?

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

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