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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tom Crick's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?
(a) She began to scream at odd times of the night.
(b) She stole a baby from a stroller in a supermarket.
(c) She has developed Alzheimer's disease.
(d) Tom Crick hit her over the head and she lost her mind.

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

3. What game are Tom Crick, Freddie Parr, Peter Baine, and Terry Coe playing with Mary Metcalf and Shirley Alford on the banks of the Hockwell Lode as Dick Crick looks on?
(a) Underwater hide and seek.
(b) A raucous game of catch.
(c) A coy game of Show Me Yours, I'll Show You Mine.
(d) They ask each other silly riddles.

4. Where do the Cricks find the body of Freddie Parr?
(a) Slumped over the table at Jack Parr's house.
(b) Hung from the rafters in the Cricks' barn.
(c) Sprawled in shrubbery by the side of the Ouse River Road.
(d) Drifting along the canal at the Atkinson Lock.

5. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?
(a) 37 years.
(b) 99 years.
(c) 68 years.
(d) 92 years.

6. What tells Tom that he and Mary must finish their argument quickly because the park is about to close?
(a) The sunset glistening on the duck pond.
(b) The gruff voice of the park warden asking others to leave.
(c) The park-keeper's bell.
(d) The steady stream of dog owners towards the park gates.

7. What did Johannes Schmidt conclude about the difference between the European eel and the American eel?
(a) The American eel eats its young, whereas the European eel does not.
(b) There is no difference, genetically.
(c) The European eel has far more offspring.
(d) The American eel has a shorter lifespan.

8. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?
(a) E Pluribus Unum.
(b) Quid Pro Quo.
(c) Ex Aqua Fermentum.
(d) Sine Qua Non.

9. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?
(a) The Golden Jubilee.
(b) The Empress of India.
(c) The Grand '51.
(d) The Crimean Victory.

10. During the festivities for the newly crowned King George V, the New Atkinson Brewery is destroyed. How?
(a) A delivery truck rams one of the main pillars and collapses the building.
(b) An accidental explosion in the boiler room.
(c) A fire nobody can explain.
(d) An overexcited mob looking for more ale.

11. Which part of London does the couple move to once they are married and Tom takes a job as a history teacher?
(a) Chelsea.
(b) Notting Hill.
(c) Knightsbridge.
(d) Greenwich.

12. Who says, "explaining's a way of avoiding the facts while you pretend to get near to them?"
(a) Mary Crick.
(b) Lewis Scott.
(c) Price.
(d) Tom Crick.

13. 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.

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

15. What does Freddie Parr do to Mary as revenge for setting him up to lose the competition because she knew he couldn't swim?
(a) He slips a large eel into her knickers.
(b) He steals all her clothes and forces her to walk home naked.
(c) He holds her under water until she nearly drowns.
(d) He rolls her in wet mud until she is totally covered by it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the ale Ernest Atkinson brews that seems to cause the end of any respect for him in Gildsey because it is too good?

2. What does Tom Crick mean by the term "Natural History"?

3. Where does Tom put the bottle that he found drifting in the water after Freddie Parr's death?

4. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?

5. How did Tom's parents meet?

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