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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about Mary strikes Tom when he returns from Germany at the end of World War II to marry her?
(a) How frail and vulnerable she seems.
(b) How much more beautiful she has become.
(c) How tough and independent she has become.
(d) How much of her old spark and curiosity she has lost.

2. After Freddie's death, Mary reacts in a drastic way. What does she do?
(a) She locks herself into her father's house for three years.
(b) She strangles Tom's favorite kitten.
(c) She attempts to commit suicide by drowning herself.
(d) She runs away to London.

3. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?
(a) That she is pregnant from Tom, but told Dick it was Freddie's child.
(b) That she pushed Freddie into the river.
(c) That she saw Freddie attack Dick the night before by the river bridge.
(d) That she is about to run off to London to hide from her father.

4. What does Ernest Atkinson convert his manor Kessling Hall into?
(a) A school for orphans.
(b) A hospital for the wounded of World War I.
(c) A museum in honor of Sarah Atkinson.
(d) An asylum for the mentally ill.

5. What does Tom Crick think the French really celebrate on Bastille Day when they mark the beginning of the French Revolution?
(a) The beginning of the Napoleonic Empire.
(b) An event that never took place.
(c) The power of the mob over government.
(d) An event that was not nearly as important at the time as it is now made out to be.

6. Where does Tom put the bottle that he found drifting in the water after Freddie Parr's death?
(a) Out by the road, where he hopes the police constable will see it.
(b) He ties it to the tail pipe of Dick's motorbike.
(c) He accidentally leaves it on the kitchen table.
(d) In Dick's room, where Dick would see it.

7. Which of the boys' bodies does Mary appear to be most interested in?
(a) Dick Crick.
(b) Freddie Parr.
(c) Tom Crick.
(d) Terry Coe.

8. What is Ernest Atkinson's reaction to the fire?
(a) He weeps openly on front of the entire town.
(b) He shows no reaction and drives off to his country estate.
(c) He sings loudly with the other revelers as the brewery collapses.
(d) He frantically alerts the fire brigade, but they are too drunk to help.

9. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?
(a) Who?
(b) How?
(c) Why?
(d) When?

10. What does Tom compare his father to as every day he sees him trudge back and forth along the canal?
(a) A caged wolf.
(b) A tethered dog.
(c) A blind ox.
(d) A chained falcon.

11. What did the inquest decide was the cause of Freddie Parr's death?
(a) Freddie was drunk, fell in the water, and could not swim.
(b) Freddie had been hit on the head with a bottle.
(c) Freddie had committed suicide.
(d) Freddie had been robbed and drowned by thugs.

12. Who hunted in Greenwich Park, where Tom and Mary sit in the evenings with their dog?
(a) Sir Walter Raleigh.
(b) King Henry VIII.
(c) Queen Anne.
(d) The Duke of Wellington.

13. What mesmerized King Canute as he was rowed past Ely?
(a) The beauty of the girls washing laundry near the riverbank.
(b) The singing of the swans in the fens.
(c) The sound of the sea breeze as it rushed through the reeds.
(d) The chanting of the monks at the Ely monastery.

14. Tom thinks that people who focus on ideals like the Declaration of the Rights of Man instead of the details of the French Revolution forget what important fact?
(a) That no man is an island and no idea exists outside of time.
(b) That the revolutionaries were hypocrites.
(c) That the revolution included barricades, bloodshed, and the guillotine.
(d) The importance of the birthday of Louis XVI.

15. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?
(a) Trout.
(b) Salmon.
(c) Eel.
(d) Carp.

Short Answer Questions

1. The effects of Ernest's special ale caused all of the following EXCEPT:

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

3. What does Tom notice for the first time when Mary struggles with Freddie Parr's prank?

4. What is the object that Dick Crick treats like it is a real person?

5. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?

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