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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. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?
(a) When?
(b) Who?
(c) Why?
(d) How?

2. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?
(a) Tom Crick himself.
(b) Freddie Parr.
(c) Harold Metcalf.
(d) Dick Crick.

3. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?
(a) That she saw Freddie attack Dick the night before by the river bridge.
(b) That she is pregnant from Tom, but told Dick it was Freddie's child.
(c) That she is about to run off to London to hide from her father.
(d) That she pushed Freddie into the river.

4. What does Ernest Atkinson, Tom's grandfather, do that marks the beginning of a long list of scandalous behavior?
(a) He proclaims that he believes Sarah Atkinson's ghost haunts his bedroom.
(b) He closes the Atkinson brewery and begins selling soda instead.
(c) He bathes in a public fountain with some of his Cambridge classmates.
(d) He get engaged to a poor journalist's daughter without his parents' permission.

5. The headmaster of the school where Tom Crick teaches history thinks Tom should retire from his job. Why?
(a) History will be eliminated from the curriculum.
(b) Tom Crick has stopped teaching the syllabus.
(c) The headmaster does not like Tom Crick.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Freddie's death, Mary reacts in a drastic way. What does she do?

2. What is the agreement between Helen and Ernest Atkinson in exchange for Ernest allowing Helen to marry Harry Crick?

3. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?

4. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?

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

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