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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 is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?
(a) The Grand '51.
(b) The Empress of India.
(c) The Golden Jubilee.
(d) The Crimean Victory.

2. What does Tom Crick find in the river that he thinks caused the bruise that killed Freddie Parr?
(a) A metal ball from a slingshot Tom has seen Jack Parr use to kill birds.
(b) A beer bottle from the defunct Atkinson brewery.
(c) A wrench Dick uses to fix his motorbike.
(d) A cricket bat with an odd indentation and a label that reads F.P.

3. 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) Nature.
(c) His brother Dick.
(d) God.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?

2. The headmaster of the school where Tom Crick teaches history thinks Tom should retire from his job. Why?

3. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?

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

5. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

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