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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. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?
(a) The mud felt the same and eels swam in the pools.
(b) The men were silent and preferred to keep to themselves.
(c) The army served the same ale the Atkinsons brewed in Gildsey.
(d) The pretty girls in the town were disdainful of him.

2. What is the name of the student Tom Crick butts heads with the most?
(a) Jerome.
(b) Price.
(c) Dick.
(d) George.

3. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?
(a) The Monk of Sudchurch.
(b) The Headless Ferryman of Staithe.
(c) The Singing Swans of Wash Fen Mere.
(d) The Grim Hound of Gargoyle Hall.

4. What is the great mystery about the eel that nobody has been able to explain?
(a) What family of species the eel really belongs to.
(b) Where and how eels mate.
(c) How long eels have existed.
(d) How eels can live both in salt water and fresh water.

5. During the festivities for the newly crowned King George V, the New Atkinson Brewery is destroyed. How?
(a) A delivery truck rams one of the main pillars and collapses the building.
(b) An overexcited mob looking for more ale.
(c) A fire nobody can explain.
(d) An accidental explosion in the boiler room.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the lesson about history that Tom Crick draws from the study of eel mating behavior?

5. What is the landscape the novel is set in?

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