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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the question Price asks Tom during their evening spent together that shakes Tom most deeply?
(a) Whether Tom has ever considered ending it all.
(b) Whether Tom truly loves Mary.
(c) Whether Tom even would want to bring children into the world as it is.
(d) Whether Tom isn't actually happy about having been fired.

2. What is NOT one of the synonyms for phlegm used in chapter 52?
(a) Mucus.
(b) Snot.
(c) Slime.
(d) Viscous semi-fluid.

3. In chapter 32, what is the event that Dick cannot understand?
(a) Finding the bottle he used to kill Freddie.
(b) His mother's death.
(c) Freddie Parr's death.
(d) Mary's attempt to teach him about love.

4. What is Mary doing at the windmill when Tom finds her?
(a) She is talking to the wind as if it were a person.
(b) She is sleeping with Dick.
(c) She is cutting herself with a razor blade.
(d) She jumps so she falls on her stomach to kill her unborn child.

5. Who tells Harry Crick the truth about Freddie Parr and Dick?
(a) Mary.
(b) Tom.
(c) Dick.
(d) The ghost of Sarah Atkinson.

6. When Harry Crick hears that Mary told her father that Tom is the father of her aborted child, what does he tell Tom they should do?
(a) Repent and confess to a priest.
(b) Get married.
(c) Never mention it again.
(d) Stay away from each other.

7. What does the letter reveal to Tom and Dick about Dick?
(a) That Ernest found Dick in the shrubs near a canal and Helen adopted him.
(b) That he is the heir to a vast fortune hidden in the Fens.
(c) That Dick is entitled to Ernest's seat in the British parliament.
(d) That he is the child of incest between Ernest and his daughter Helen.

8. What is the phrase Tom uses about who should not have to prop up whom?
(a) Civilians shouldn't have to prop up the government.
(b) Teachers shouldn't have to prop up their student's future.
(c) Rebels shouldn't have to prop up the tyrant.
(d) The smart should not have to prop up the ignorant.

9. Price tells Tom Crick of his nightmare about:
(a) A nuclear holocaust.
(b) A wailing woman in a supermarket.
(c) A black dog outside his window.
(d) Tom Crick dying on the last day of class.

10. What does Mary tell Tom that she does not tell the judge?
(a) That she had seen the mother pinch the child angrily.
(b) That the mother had told her to take the child.
(c) That she had planned abducting the child for a long time.
(d) That she didn't really hear a voice from God telling her to take the child.

11. Where does Tom go after he leaves Mary at the insane asylum?
(a) Greenwich Park.
(b) Gildsey.
(c) Price's parents' house.
(d) The Safeways supermarket.

12. What is the catastrophe that hits Europe in January 1937?
(a) A record cold winter.
(b) A flu epidemic.
(c) A series of catastrophic floods.
(d) Word War II begins.

13. How does Price feel about helping his drunk teacher Tom Crick once they are out on the street outside the pub?
(a) Overwhelmed.
(b) Superior.
(c) Amused.
(d) Embarrassed.

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

15. Instead of living up to their ideals of freedom, brotherhood, and equality, Tom says the French revolutionaries turned straight to what?
(a) The radical capitalism of Adam Smith.
(b) Napoleon and his promises of glory and Empire.
(c) Destroying their own civilization.
(d) Mob rule and mass murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dick's reaction to the revelation about his birth?

2. Whom does Helen Crick ask to see when she is on her deathbed?

3. What is NOT a function of phlegm that Tom mentions in chapter 51?

4. What temperament does phlegm tend towards, as reflected in the mood of the landscape the novel is set in and in the mood of many of its major characters?

5. What is NOT one of the emblems of by-gone years that Tom includes in his list of memories he wants Mary to recall?

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