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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. Tom thinks that people who focus on ideals like the Declaration of the Rights of Man instead of the details of the French Revolution forget what important fact?
(a) That the revolution included barricades, bloodshed, and the guillotine.
(b) That the revolutionaries were hypocrites.
(c) That no man is an island and no idea exists outside of time.
(d) The importance of the birthday of Louis XVI.

2. 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 Mary as she was when she was 15.
(c) He dreams of Price as the Prime Minister of Britain.
(d) He dreams of the headmaster drowning in a canal.

3. 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) Helen Atkinson Ale.
(b) Gildsey Flood Ale.
(c) Diamond Jubilee Ale.
(d) Coronation Ale.

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

5. What does the phrase "in loco parentis" mean?
(a) In place of the parents.
(b) Placed in parentheses.
(c) Because of parental insanity.
(d) According to the logic of the parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. The effects of Ernest's special ale caused all of the following EXCEPT:

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

3. How did Tom's parents meet?

4. What is the name of the student Tom Crick butts heads with the most?

5. What does Tom compare his father to as every day he sees him trudge back and forth along the canal?

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