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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21 | Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the festivities for the newly crowned King George V, the New Atkinson Brewery is destroyed. How?
(a) An overexcited mob looking for more ale.
(b) A delivery truck rams one of the main pillars and collapses the building.
(c) A fire nobody can explain.
(d) An accidental explosion in the boiler room.

2. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?
(a) The growling of an angry beast.
(b) A bomber airplane.
(c) Machine gun fire.
(d) The thudding of his own heart.

3. How does Tom eventually arrange to marry Mary, even though her father Harold Metcalf hates him?
(a) Tom breaks into the Metcalf home at night and runs off with Mary.
(b) Tom comes home a war hero, and Harold Metcalf is too embarrassed to say no.
(c) Tom's father Harry asks Harold for permission in the place of his son.
(d) Mary ignores her father and elopes with Tom.

4. What is the name of the ale Ernest Atkinson brews that seems to cause the end of any respect for him in Gildsey because it is too good?
(a) Gildsey Flood Ale.
(b) Coronation Ale.
(c) Helen Atkinson Ale.
(d) Diamond Jubilee Ale.

5. What does Tom dream that he considers telling the headmaster about?
(a) He dreams of a woman wailing in a supermarket.
(b) He dreams of the headmaster drowning in a canal.
(c) He dreams of Price as the Prime Minister of Britain.
(d) He dreams of Mary as she was when she was 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. What World War I battle was Tom's father injured in and saw his brother killed in earlier in the day?

2. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?

3. What medical condition is Tom afraid that Mary might have?

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

5. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?

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