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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 did Tom's parents meet?
(a) His father came home as a war hero and his mother was the prettiest girl at the parade.
(b) His father delivered a crate of eels to the house where Tom's mother lived.
(c) His father heard her shouting one day because she'd sprained an ankle and rescued her.
(d) His father was recovering from World War I in a mental asylum where his mother was a nurse.

2. 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.

3. What does Ernest Atkinson do with the three remaining steam ships he owns?
(a) He sells them to the city of Gildsey for the use of the fire brigade.
(b) He names them after his daughter, Helen I, Helen II, and Helen III.
(c) He donates them to the army to aid in the war effort.
(d) He converts them into pleasure cruise ships.

4. What about Mary strikes Tom when he returns from Germany at the end of World War II to marry her?
(a) How much more beautiful she has become.
(b) How frail and vulnerable she seems.
(c) How tough and independent she has become.
(d) How much of her old spark and curiosity she has lost.

5. 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 revolutionaries were hypocrites.
(b) The importance of the birthday of Louis XVI.
(c) That the revolution included barricades, bloodshed, and the guillotine.
(d) That no man is an island and no idea exists outside of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which part of London does the couple move to once they are married and Tom takes a job as a history teacher?

2. Who says, "explaining's a way of avoiding the facts while you pretend to get near to them?"

3. Who hunted in Greenwich Park, where Tom and Mary sit in the evenings with their dog?

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

5. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?

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