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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 Ernest Atkinson's maid Jane Shaw think she saw in the old Atkinson townhouse as the brewery was burning?
(a) The ghost of Sarah Atkinson, shouting.
(b) Helen Atkinson laughing as she watches the brewery collapse from her window.
(c) A black cat with its tail on fire.
(d) Ernest Atkinson packing cans of leftover lighting fluid into a satchel.

2. 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 Norman Invasion of 1066.
(b) The Sarajevo Assassination of 1914.
(c) The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
(d) The French Revolution of 1789.

3. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the difference between animals and humans?
(a) Animals don't kill each other out of jealousy.
(b) Humans tell each other stories.
(c) Humans can plan for the future.
(d) Humans have the ability to forgive each other.

4. How does Tom eventually arrange to marry Mary, even though her father Harold Metcalf hates him?
(a) Tom's father Harry asks Harold for permission in the place of his son.
(b) Tom comes home a war hero, and Harold Metcalf is too embarrassed to say no.
(c) Mary ignores her father and elopes with Tom.
(d) Tom breaks into the Metcalf home at night and runs off with Mary.

5. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?
(a) He sells the Water Transport Company.
(b) He takes a ruinous Grand Tour of Europe.
(c) He closes the Atkinson brewery.
(d) He sells Kessling Hall, their estate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freddie Parr do to Mary as revenge for setting him up to lose the competition because she knew he couldn't swim?

3. Tom Crick's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?

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

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

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