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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the landscape the novel is set in?
(a) The Fens in eastern England.
(b) The docks of East London.
(c) The Lake District in northern England.
(d) The coastline of Cornwall.

2. Which part of London does the couple move to once they are married and Tom takes a job as a history teacher?
(a) Notting Hill.
(b) Knightsbridge.
(c) Greenwich.
(d) Chelsea.

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

4. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?
(a) His ability to smuggle liquor out of an American military base nearby.
(b) His tendency to get into fights with the local barman.
(c) His heckling of young women who worked in the fields.
(d) His habit of stealing livestock off the river barges.

5. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?
(a) 37 years.
(b) 92 years.
(c) 68 years.
(d) 99 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom Crick say is the mission of a history teacher?

2. What is the worst thing Tom Crick can imagine?

3. During the festivities for the newly crowned King George V, the New Atkinson Brewery is destroyed. How?

4. What is the way out everybody in Price's nightmare uses except for Price?

5. What marks the end of Ernest Atkinson's political career?

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