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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. The headmaster of the school where Tom Crick teaches history thinks Tom should retire from his job. Why?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Tom Crick has stopped teaching the syllabus.
(c) History will be eliminated from the curriculum.
(d) The headmaster does not like Tom Crick.

2. What is the name of the student Tom Crick butts heads with the most?
(a) Jerome.
(b) Price.
(c) Dick.
(d) George.

3. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?
(a) Quid Pro Quo.
(b) E Pluribus Unum.
(c) Sine Qua Non.
(d) Ex Aqua Fermentum.

4. How does Freddie Parr's father Jack react to the ruling by the court that Freddie's death was an accident?
(a) He walks out of the court room and is never seen again.
(b) He curses the judge and accuses Tom Crick of killing Freddie.
(c) He has a heart attack in the court room and dies on the spot.
(d) He goes to sit on the train tracks to commit suicide, but no train appears.

5. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?
(a) They invent the steam engine.
(b) They grow the best malt barley for beer brewing in the area.
(c) An ancestor saves Queen Elizabeth, is knighted and given a royal commission.
(d) They return rich from an exploration to the Americas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom Crick's new-coined term "histrionics" refer to?

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

3. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?

4. What does Tom Crick find in the river that he thinks caused the bruise that killed Freddie Parr?

5. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?

(see the answer key)

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