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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25 | Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"
(a) Cicero.
(b) Dionysius the Areopagite.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Heraclitus of Ephesus.

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

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 is the historical event that Tom Crick keeps returning to over and over again as he explains that history seems to move in a circle?
(a) The Sarajevo Assassination of 1914.
(b) The French Revolution of 1789.
(c) The Norman Invasion of 1066.
(d) The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?

2. What did the inquest decide was the cause of Freddie Parr's death?

3. What is the object that Dick Crick treats like it is a real person?

4. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?

5. What is the River Tom Crick describes at great length to explain how the landscape of the novel's setting is formed?

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