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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the agreement between Helen and Ernest Atkinson in exchange for Ernest allowing Helen to marry Harry Crick?
(a) That Helen will help Ernest commit suicide.
(b) That Helen will become a nurse at the Kessling Hall asylum.
(c) That Helen will have Ernest's child.
(d) That Helen will find a way to assuage Sarah Atkinson's ghost.

2. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?
(a) Seeing destroyed German cities after World War II.
(b) Receiving a history book as a secret gift from Mary when he leaves for the war.
(c) Hearing about the murder of six million Jews during the war.
(d) A conversation with a German POW who says history has ended in 1945.

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

4. What does Ernest Atkinson, Tom's grandfather, do that marks the beginning of a long list of scandalous behavior?
(a) He proclaims that he believes Sarah Atkinson's ghost haunts his bedroom.
(b) He bathes in a public fountain with some of his Cambridge classmates.
(c) He closes the Atkinson brewery and begins selling soda instead.
(d) He get engaged to a poor journalist's daughter without his parents' permission.

5. Tom confronts Price about his frequent interruptions during class. What question does Price's reluctance about history boil down to?
(a) How can anyone know what really happened?
(b) How many more history lessons will he have to sit through?
(c) Does knowing history help change anything?
(d) Is history not just a collection of stories that keeps the powerful in power?

6. How does Freddie Parr's father Jack react to the ruling by the court that Freddie's death was an accident?
(a) He has a heart attack in the court room and dies on the spot.
(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 curses the judge and accuses Tom Crick of killing Freddie.

7. What World War I battle was Tom's father injured in and saw his brother killed in earlier in the day?
(a) Verdun.
(b) Marne.
(c) Ypres.
(d) Somme.

8. Why does Tom Crick decide to study the history of the Fens?
(a) Because the only history books he can find during the Battle for Britain are local ones.
(b) Because the only scholarship to university he can get is for Fenland history.
(c) Because it is the only history that holds any fascination for him.
(d) To avoid thinking about the history that is in the making as World War II rages.

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

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

11. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?
(a) His habit of stealing livestock off the river barges.
(b) His tendency to get into fights with the local barman.
(c) His ability to smuggle liquor out of an American military base nearby.
(d) His heckling of young women who worked in the fields.

12. 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) Could he have saved Freddie?
(b) Who killed Freddie?
(c) Why did Freddie have to die?
(d) How did Freddie die?

13. 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.

14. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?
(a) Geography.
(b) General Studies.
(c) Liberal Arts.
(d) Civics.

15. Which boy is most aggressive about asking the two girls to take their clothes off?
(a) Tom Crick.
(b) Dick Crick.
(c) Freddie Parr.
(d) Peter Baine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which part of London does the couple move to once they are married and Tom takes a job as a history teacher?

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

3. Which of the boys' bodies does Mary appear to be most interested in?

4. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?

5. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the difference between animals and humans?

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