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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason Mary gives Tom for trying to seduce Dick in chapter 32?
(a) Her curiosity.
(b) Her wish to make Tom jealous.
(c) Her desire to make Dick feel less lonely.
(d) Her fear of Dick's anger.

2. What does Tom compare the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to?
(a) Mary's abortion.
(b) A circus attraction.
(c) Plucking a chicken.
(d) A puppet show.

3. Who dies of the flu?
(a) Helen Crick.
(b) Jack Parr.
(c) Harry Crick.
(d) Ernest Atkinson.

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

5. According to ancient tradition, too much phlegm is best countered with large amounts of what substance that many characters in the novel use in large quantities?
(a) Water.
(b) Liquor.
(c) Hemlock.
(d) Salt.

6. At the end of chapter 44, Tom Crick decides that what people really want to know isn't truth. What they really want is...
(a) To know that they're right.
(b) An excuse to hate.
(c) Drama.
(d) To laugh at someone.

7. What is Martha Clay's pet?
(a) An angry dog.
(b) A black cat.
(c) A ferret.
(d) A talking raven.

8. How old is Mary when she steals the baby?
(a) 45.
(b) 63.
(c) 15.
(d) 52.

9. What does Tom think is a superstition people believed in "once upon a time"?
(a) The end of the world.
(b) That history matters.
(c) God.
(d) The goodness of human kind.

10. What sparks Tom Crick's interest in the mating habits of eels?
(a) His memory of an eel in Mary's knickers and his need to take his mind off Mary being with Dick.
(b) Mary tells Tom if he can find out the truth about how eels mate, she'll stop her love lessons with Dick.
(c) His desire to show his own curiosity is as strong as Mary's.
(d) Mary asks him to look it up because she wants to use it as an example to teach Dick about sex.

11. Tom thinks Mary cannot overcome her insanity because...
(a) Brain chemistry is destiny.
(b) She keeps reliving the past.
(c) He does not love her enough.
(d) There is no cure for Alzheimer's.

12. While Harry Crick recovers from his ordeal, whom does Mary remind him of?
(a) His wife, Helen Atkinson.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) Florence Nightingale.
(d) Sarah Atkinson.

13. What does Price shout when Tom Crick stands up to give his farewell speech?
(a) All teachers are fascists!
(b) Shut up! Get out!
(c) History is dead!
(d) No cuts! Keep Crick!

14. In Tom's mind, the headmaster thinks of the school as what, figuratively speaking?
(a) An atomic bomb shelter.
(b) A duck pond with a fence.
(c) A swamp full of lost sheep.
(d) A kennel for wild dogs.

15. On what days does Tom stay at home at night because Dick spends the evenings out with Mary?
(a) Monday and Thursday.
(b) Wednesday and Saturday.
(c) Tuesday and Friday.
(d) Wednesday and Sunday.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom dislikes the pike because...

2. What reason does the headmaster give the students for Tom's retirement from the school?

3. Price tells Tom Crick of his nightmare about:

4. Where did the stuffed pike come from?

5. What are Mary and Tom waiting for the last time they lie together at the windmill?

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