1. What is Henry Crick's occupation?
(a) Lock keeper at the Atkinson Lock.
(b) Barge captain on the River Ouse.
(c) Brewmaster at the Atkinson Brewery.
(d) History teacher.

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 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.

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

4. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?
(a) An ancestor saves Queen Elizabeth, is knighted and given a royal commission.
(b) They return rich from an exploration to the Americas.
(c) They grow the best malt barley for beer brewing in the area.
(d) They invent the steam engine.

5. 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) How eels can live both in salt water and fresh water.
(c) How long eels have existed.
(d) Where and how eels mate.