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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does the headmaster give the students for Tom's retirement from the school?
(a) Personal reasons.
(b) Because Tom is a disgrace to the school.
(c) Because the history department will be cut.
(d) Health reasons.

2. What is the name of the Cricks' doctor?
(a) Dr. Higginbotham.
(b) Dr. Bright.
(c) Dr. Atlee.
(d) Dr. Fiddler.

3. Why does Mary tell Dick that she is pregnant with Freddie Parr's child?
(a) She wants to end her love lessons with Dick.
(b) She wants Dick to make Freddie leave her alone.
(c) She's being silly, but Dick doesn't understand that she is joking.
(d) She tells Dick it isn't his child, sees his anger, and wants to protect Tom.

4. Whom does Tom Crick quote as saying, "we cannot step into the same river twice?"
(a) Heraclitus of Ephesus.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Dionysius the Areopagite.
(d) Cicero.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary tell Tom that she does not tell the judge?

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 did Tom's parents meet?

4. What's the "old, old feeling" that Tom Crick tells Price everybody has always felt?

5. What does the letter reveal to Tom and Dick about Dick?

(see the answer key)

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