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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 Henry Crick's occupation?
(a) Barge captain on the River Ouse.
(b) Lock keeper at the Atkinson Lock.
(c) History teacher.
(d) Brewmaster at the Atkinson Brewery.

2. What important phrase does Tom shout to Price just before they part?
(a) Don't forget me!
(b) Don't become like I am!
(c) Don't let them do it!
(d) All I told you was lies!

3. What does Price shout when Tom Crick stands up to give his farewell speech?
(a) No cuts! Keep Crick!
(b) History is dead!
(c) All teachers are fascists!
(d) Shut up! Get out!

4. Tom dislikes the pike because...
(a) The pike reminds him of Dick.
(b) Pikes are killers and scares him.
(c) The pike smells awful.
(d) Pikes were swarming around Freddie Parr's body.

5. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?
(a) He thinks Tom is senile.
(b) He thinks history is imaginary and doesn't matter.
(c) He hates school in general, and Tom is easy to pick on.
(d) He thinks Tom is lying to the class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom compare his father to as every day he sees him trudge back and forth along the canal?

2. Who dies of the flu?

3. Who says, "explaining's a way of avoiding the facts while you pretend to get near to them?"

4. While Martha locks herself in with Mary, she asks Tom to do what outside?

5. What secret does Tom reveal to his students about Lewis Scott, the headmaster of the school?

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