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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) Somme.
(b) Marne.
(c) Ypres.
(d) Verdun.

2. What does Tom think is a superstition people believed in "once upon a time"?
(a) The goodness of human kind.
(b) The end of the world.
(c) God.
(d) That history matters.

3. What secret does Tom reveal to his students about Lewis Scott, the headmaster of the school?
(a) The headmaster was once arrested for cross-dressing.
(b) The headmaster is having an affair with his secretary, Miss Plum.
(c) The headmaster keeps whisky bottles in his filing cabinet.
(d) The headmaster cheated to receive his university degree.

4. What does Tom compare the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to?
(a) Plucking a chicken.
(b) A puppet show.
(c) A circus attraction.
(d) Mary's abortion.

5. What is the River Tom Crick describes at great length to explain how the landscape of the novel's setting is formed?
(a) The Cam.
(b) The Tyne.
(c) The Thames.
(d) The Ouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Martha Clay's pet?

2. Why does Harry Crick abandon his cottage by the Atkinson lock?

3. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?

4. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?

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

(see the answer key)

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