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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 causes the soldiers at the 1915 Royal Cambrideshire Militia parade to stumble out of formation?
(a) Heckling by Ernest Atkinson.
(b) Helen Atkinson's beauty.
(c) Drinking Coronation Ale.
(d) The sound of a beer barge foghorn.

2. During the festivities for the newly crowned King George V, the New Atkinson Brewery is destroyed. How?
(a) An accidental explosion in the boiler room.
(b) An overexcited mob looking for more ale.
(c) A delivery truck rams one of the main pillars and collapses the building.
(d) A fire nobody can explain.

3. What does Tom Crick's new-coined term "histrionics" refer to?
(a) Being hysterically enthusiastic about something.
(b) Changing history through technology.
(c) Throwing an angry fit because what has happened is history and cannot be changed.
(d) The combined study of history and economics.

4. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the difference between animals and humans?
(a) Humans have the ability to forgive each other.
(b) Animals don't kill each other out of jealousy.
(c) Humans can plan for the future.
(d) Humans tell each other stories.

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?
(a) The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
(b) The French Revolution of 1789.
(c) The Norman Invasion of 1066.
(d) The Sarajevo Assassination of 1914.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the landscape the novel is set in?

2. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?

3. What is the great mystery about the eel that nobody has been able to explain?

4. Tom Crick's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?

5. What mesmerized King Canute as he was rowed past Ely?

(see the answer key)

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