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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What World War I battle was Tom's father injured in and saw his brother killed in earlier in the day?
(a) Verdun.
(b) Somme.
(c) Ypres.
(d) Marne.

2. Who hunted in Greenwich Park, where Tom and Mary sit in the evenings with their dog?
(a) Sir Walter Raleigh.
(b) Queen Anne.
(c) King Henry VIII.
(d) The Duke of Wellington.

3. Why does Tom Crick apologize to Price outside the pub?
(a) Tom promised Price a lift but now is too drunk to drive.
(b) Tom doesn't really know either.
(c) Tom shouts at the barman and has them both kicked out of the pub.
(d) Tom thinks he wasted the students' time in his history class.

4. Which of the following is NOT a theory that biologists have put forward about how eels reproduce?
(a) Eels fertilize their eggs internally and bring forth live young.
(b) Eels form out of small parasites that begin their lives in the belly of larger fish.
(c) Eels create offspring by rubbing against rocks; the young form the shreds of skin that come off.
(d) Eels are sexless and a born spontaneously out of the mud.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who turns out to be Ernest's other child?

2. What is the catastrophe that hits Europe in January 1937?

3. Price tells Tom Crick of his nightmare about:

4. What is the name of the supermarket that Mary stole the baby from?

5. What tells Tom that he and Mary must finish their argument quickly because the park is about to close?

(see the answer key)

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