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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who dies of the flu?
(a) Harry Crick.
(b) Helen Crick.
(c) Jack Parr.
(d) Ernest Atkinson.

2. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?
(a) Hearing about the murder of six million Jews during the war.
(b) Receiving a history book as a secret gift from Mary when he leaves for the war.
(c) Seeing destroyed German cities after World War II.
(d) A conversation with a German POW who says history has ended in 1945.

3. What does the letter reveal to Tom and Dick about Dick?
(a) That Ernest found Dick in the shrubs near a canal and Helen adopted him.
(b) That he is the heir to a vast fortune hidden in the Fens.
(c) That he is the child of incest between Ernest and his daughter Helen.
(d) That Dick is entitled to Ernest's seat in the British parliament.

4. What does Tom Crick mean by the term "Natural History"?
(a) History as it would progress if humans didn't attempt to interfere in it constantly.
(b) The study of human nature through stories to see what human beings truly are like.
(c) The history of the world as seen through the lense of science.
(d) The history of animals, plants, and other life forms.

5. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?
(a) Her husband hits her in the head in a fit of rage, leaving her a living shell of her former self.
(b) She loses her long-awaited first child at its birth.
(c) Her husband dies and his relatives take all his money from her, leaving her destitute.
(d) She is caught on the second floor of her house when it burns down.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?

2. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?

3. What are Mary and Tom waiting for the last time they lie together at the windmill?

4. What does Ernest Atkinson's maid Jane Shaw think she saw in the old Atkinson townhouse as the brewery was burning?

5. What is the historical fact that Tom says "history scarcely finds time to mention"?

(see the answer key)

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