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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the object that Dick Crick treats like it is a real person?
(a) His motorbike.
(b) His father's radio.
(c) His dead mother's sewing machine.
(d) His barge engine.

2. Henry Crick, Tom's father, is obsessed with one question about Freddie's death that he repeats over and over again. What is it?
(a) Why did Freddie have to die?
(b) How did Freddie die?
(c) Who killed Freddie?
(d) Could he have saved Freddie?

3. 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 the revolution included barricades, bloodshed, and the guillotine.
(b) That no man is an island and no idea exists outside of time.
(c) That the revolutionaries were hypocrites.
(d) The importance of the birthday of Louis XVI.

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

5. 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.

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

7. What marks the end of Ernest Atkinson's political career?
(a) He offends the mayor of Gildsey.
(b) He sneezes in parliament during a speech by King George V.
(c) He opposes the unionization of dock workers.
(d) He runs as a candidate for the Liberal Party.

8. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?
(a) He closes the Atkinson brewery.
(b) He takes a ruinous Grand Tour of Europe.
(c) He sells the Water Transport Company.
(d) He sells Kessling Hall, their estate.

9. How does Freddie Parr's father Jack react to the ruling by the court that Freddie's death was an accident?
(a) He curses the judge and accuses Tom Crick of killing Freddie.
(b) He walks out of the court room and is never seen again.
(c) He goes to sit on the train tracks to commit suicide, but no train appears.
(d) He has a heart attack in the court room and dies on the spot.

10. How does Tom eventually arrange to marry Mary, even though her father Harold Metcalf hates him?
(a) Tom's father Harry asks Harold for permission in the place of his son.
(b) Tom breaks into the Metcalf home at night and runs off with Mary.
(c) Tom comes home a war hero, and Harold Metcalf is too embarrassed to say no.
(d) Mary ignores her father and elopes with Tom.

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

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

13. How does Tom react to Mary's statement that "everything has changed" with Freddie's death.
(a) He says nothing and watches Mary run off into the night.
(b) He slaps Mary and shouts,
(c) He laughs uncontrollably.
(d) He tears up lumps of grass and angrily throws them around.

14. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?
(a) A bomber airplane.
(b) The thudding of his own heart.
(c) Machine gun fire.
(d) The growling of an angry beast.

15. What is the name of the student Tom Crick butts heads with the most?
(a) Price.
(b) Dick.
(c) Jerome.
(d) George.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?

2. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?

3. 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?

4. What does the phrase "in loco parentis" mean?

5. Tom confronts Price about his frequent interruptions during class. What question does Price's reluctance about history boil down to?

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