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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?
(a) Ideological.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Physiological.
(d) Theological.

2. Tom Crick compares history teachers to which fictional character?
(a) Scheherazade from 1001 Nights.
(b) Baron Münchhausen with his tall tales.
(c) The Wife of Bath from Canterbury Tales.
(d) King Lear.

3. 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) All of the above.
(c) The headmaster does not like Tom Crick.
(d) Tom Crick has stopped teaching the syllabus.

4. What is the object that Dick Crick treats like it is a real person?
(a) His motorbike.
(b) His father's radio.
(c) His barge engine.
(d) His dead mother's sewing machine.

5. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?
(a) He sells Kessling Hall, their estate.
(b) He sells the Water Transport Company.
(c) He closes the Atkinson brewery.
(d) He takes a ruinous Grand Tour of Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Mary when she steals the baby?

2. What does Ernest Atkinson do with the three remaining steam ships he owns?

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

4. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?

5. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"

(see the answer key)

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