Waterland Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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Waterland Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 39 | Chapter 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Dick do when he finds the bottle?
(a) He hides it in a wooden chest with a lock in the attic.
(b) He ties it to the handle of his motorbike with a piece of string.
(c) He screams and later says he saw Sarah Atkinson's ghost.
(d) He threatens Tom not to tell anyone about it or he will hurt Tom.

3. What is in the chest in the attic that Helen bestows upon Dick?
(a) Helen's crucifix.
(b) The veil of Sarah Atkinson.
(c) Several bottles of Coronation Ale.
(d) Helen's antique jewelry.

4. What is Tom Crick's response to this revelation?
(a) He begins to be afraid of Dick.
(b) He starts flirting intensely with Mary to outdo all the other boys.
(c) He reads history books when Dick is out wooing Mary.
(d) He turns Freddie Parr in to the police constable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?

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

3. Who hunted in Greenwich Park, where Tom and Mary sit in the evenings with their dog?

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

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?

(see the answer key)

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