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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who turns out to be Ernest's other child?
(a) Freddie Parr.
(b) Tom Crick.
(c) Mary Metcalf.
(d) Dick Crick.

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

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

4. 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.

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

6. Where did the stuffed pike come from?
(a) Tom caught it and gave it to Dick for his birthday.
(b) It was a wedding present for Dick and Helen Crick.
(c) Dick never tells anyone.
(d) Dick caught it.

7. Tom Crick compares history teachers to which fictional character?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Scheherazade from 1001 Nights.
(c) The Wife of Bath from Canterbury Tales.
(d) Baron Münchhausen with his tall tales.

8. What to Tom and Mary ask Martha to help them with?
(a) Finding a key to Dick's chest.
(b) Poison for Dick.
(c) A way to save Mary's baby.
(d) An abortion for Mary.

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

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

11. Tom compares Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to what at the eve of the French Revolution?
(a) Two scared rabbits trapped in a hole.
(b) The French people's father and wicked step-mother.
(c) Him and Mary.
(d) Adam and Eve on the day the serpent came.

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

13. Tom Crick compares the end of a person's life to...
(a) Drowning in a sea of regrets.
(b) A jungle of tangled memories.
(c) A creeping darkness.
(d) A second childhood.

14. What reason does the headmaster give the students for Tom's retirement from the school?
(a) Health reasons.
(b) Personal reasons.
(c) Because the history department will be cut.
(d) Because Tom is a disgrace to the school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom react to finding the child Mary has stolen?

2. What is the way out everybody in Price's nightmare uses except for Price?

3. What is NOT a negative personality trait associated with phlegm, although it plays a pivotal role in some of the novel's most important turning points?

4. What does Tom compare the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to?

5. How does Harry Crick find out that his son Dick is in love with Mary?

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