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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. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?
(a) He thinks history is imaginary and doesn't matter.
(b) He thinks Tom is lying to the class.
(c) He hates school in general, and Tom is easy to pick on.
(d) He thinks Tom is senile.

2. What does Tom compare his father to as every day he sees him trudge back and forth along the canal?
(a) A blind ox.
(b) A caged wolf.
(c) A chained falcon.
(d) A tethered dog.

3. Johannes Schmidt, whose theory about eels and their mating habits is considered the most accurate one, thought that eels mate where?
(a) The Sargasso Sea.
(b) The Arctic Ocean.
(c) In river springs.
(d) The Gulf of Mexico.

4. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?
(a) The thudding of his own heart.
(b) A bomber airplane.
(c) Machine gun fire.
(d) The growling of an angry beast.

5. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?
(a) St. Gunnhilda.
(b) St. Gertrude of the Marshes.
(c) St. Julian of Norwich.
(d) St. Mary.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

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

4. What does Tom Crick think the French really celebrate on Bastille Day when they mark the beginning of the French Revolution?

5. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?

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