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

2. Where do the Cricks find the body of Freddie Parr?
(a) Slumped over the table at Jack Parr's house.
(b) Drifting along the canal at the Atkinson Lock.
(c) Sprawled in shrubbery by the side of the Ouse River Road.
(d) Hung from the rafters in the Cricks' barn.

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

4. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?
(a) Liberal Arts.
(b) Geography.
(c) General Studies.
(d) Civics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What marks the end of Ernest Atkinson's political career?

2. What does Ernest Atkinson, Tom's grandfather, do that marks the beginning of a long list of scandalous behavior?

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

4. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?

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

(see the answer key)

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