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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. What secret does Tom reveal to his students about Lewis Scott, the headmaster of the school?
(a) The headmaster cheated to receive his university degree.
(b) The headmaster is having an affair with his secretary, Miss Plum.
(c) The headmaster keeps whisky bottles in his filing cabinet.
(d) The headmaster was once arrested for cross-dressing.

2. After Freddie's death, Mary reacts in a drastic way. What does she do?
(a) She attempts to commit suicide by drowning herself.
(b) She runs away to London.
(c) She strangles Tom's favorite kitten.
(d) She locks herself into her father's house for three years.

3. How does Tom react to Mary's statement that "everything has changed" with Freddie's death.
(a) He says nothing and watches Mary run off into the night.
(b) He slaps Mary and shouts,
(c) He tears up lumps of grass and angrily throws them around.
(d) He laughs uncontrollably.

4. The effects of Ernest's special ale caused all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) The premature setting off of the evening's fireworks.
(b) Wild improvisations by the marching band.
(c) The mass desertion of the army troops stationed in the town to the taverns.
(d) The near-collision of two pleasure boats whose steersmen had drunk too much.

5. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?
(a) The Golden Jubilee.
(b) The Crimean Victory.
(c) The Grand '51.
(d) The Empress of India.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?

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

3. Tom confronts Price about his frequent interruptions during class. What question does Price's reluctance about history boil down to?

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

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

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