1. 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 breaks into the Metcalf home at night and runs off with Mary.
(c) Tom comes home a war hero, and Harold Metcalf is too embarrassed to say no.
(d) Mary ignores her father and elopes with Tom.

2. How did Tom's parents meet?
(a) His father came home as a war hero and his mother was the prettiest girl at the parade.
(b) His father heard her shouting one day because she'd sprained an ankle and rescued her.
(c) His father was recovering from World War I in a mental asylum where his mother was a nurse.
(d) His father delivered a crate of eels to the house where Tom's mother lived.

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

4. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?
(a) God.
(b) Nature.
(c) Their neighbor's son George.
(d) His brother Dick.

5. What secret does Tom reveal to his students about Lewis Scott, the headmaster of the school?
(a) The headmaster cheated to receive his university degree.
(b) The headmaster was once arrested for cross-dressing.
(c) The headmaster is having an affair with his secretary, Miss Plum.
(d) The headmaster keeps whisky bottles in his filing cabinet.