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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. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?
(a) Their neighbor's son George.
(b) His brother Dick.
(c) Nature.
(d) God.

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

3. What is the landscape the novel is set in?
(a) The Lake District in northern England.
(b) The Fens in eastern England.
(c) The docks of East London.
(d) The coastline of Cornwall.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?

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

4. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?

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

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