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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Price tells Tom Crick of his nightmare about:
(a) A black dog outside his window.
(b) A nuclear holocaust.
(c) A wailing woman in a supermarket.
(d) Tom Crick dying on the last day of class.

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

3. What does Tom tell Dick about Mary's baby?
(a) That the baby really was Freddie Parr's.
(b) That the baby is Dick's.
(c) That it's Dick's fault the baby died.
(d) That the baby was Harold Metcalf's.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom compare migrating geese to in the winter of 1943?

2. What does Tom Crick think the French really celebrate on Bastille Day when they mark the beginning of the French Revolution?

3. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?

4. Who says, "explaining's a way of avoiding the facts while you pretend to get near to them?"

5. What is Martha Clay's pet?

(see the answer key)

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