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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 is the name of the student Tom Crick butts heads with the most?
(a) George.
(b) Dick.
(c) Jerome.
(d) Price.

2. Tom Crick's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?
(a) She stole a baby from a stroller in a supermarket.
(b) She has developed Alzheimer's disease.
(c) Tom Crick hit her over the head and she lost her mind.
(d) She began to scream at odd times of the night.

3. How does Harry Crick find out that his son Dick is in love with Mary?
(a) He overhears Dick talking to himself about Mary.
(b) Dick angrily shouts at Tom to stay away from Mary.
(c) Mary's father, Harold Metcalf, asks him to keep Dick away from Mary.
(d) Dick asks how babies are made.

4. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?
(a) Quid Pro Quo.
(b) Sine Qua Non.
(c) E Pluribus Unum.
(d) Ex Aqua Fermentum.

5. What is the lesson about history that Tom Crick draws from the study of eel mating behavior?
(a) The eel is much more adapted to life on earth than humans are.
(b) What human beings think of as major historical events makes little difference to other life on earth.
(c) The true future of mankind lies West of the Atlantic Ocean.
(d) While humans die, some life forms like the eel seem to live forever.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Freddie Parr's father Jack react to the ruling by the court that Freddie's death was an accident?

3. What is Tom Crick's response to Mary's claim that God speaks to her.

4. Where does Tom put the bottle that he found drifting in the water after Freddie Parr's death?

5. Which of the following is NOT a theory that biologists have put forward about how eels reproduce?

(see the answer key)

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