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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Helen Crick ask to see when she is on her deathbed?
(a) Ernest.
(b) Tom.
(c) Dick.
(d) Harry.

2. What is one of the books Tom Crick reads that he finds in the trove of books collected by his great-aunts Louisa and Dora?
(a) Hereward the Wake.
(b) King Arthur and His Noble Knights.
(c) The Last of the Mohicans.
(d) A Tale of Two Cities.

3. What is the name of the student club that Price is part of?
(a) Concerned Students for Democratic Change.
(b) The Tom Crick Admirers Association.
(c) The Students For the Future Society.
(d) The Holocaust Club/Anti-Armageddon League.

4. What is the agreement between Helen and Ernest Atkinson in exchange for Ernest allowing Helen to marry Harry Crick?
(a) That Helen will help Ernest commit suicide.
(b) That Helen will have Ernest's child.
(c) That Helen will become a nurse at the Kessling Hall asylum.
(d) That Helen will find a way to assuage Sarah Atkinson's ghost.

5. What is the historical fact that Tom says "history scarcely finds time to mention"?
(a) That 55,000 German civilians died in the fire bombing Hamburg by the Allies.
(b) That Marie Antoinette never said the phrase, "let them eat cake."
(c) That King Arthur was not English at all, but rather Welsh.
(d) That on the eve of the French Revolution Louis XVI mourned his firstborn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the image Tom uses to describe his idea of progress?

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

3. How long does Harry Crick have to wait until he is rescued?

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

5. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?

(see the answer key)

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