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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 asks him to look it up because she wants to use it as an example to teach Dick about sex.
(c) Mary tells Tom if he can find out the truth about how eels mate, she'll stop her love lessons with Dick.
(d) His desire to show his own curiosity is as strong as Mary's.

4. Where does Price accompany Tom before they part?
(a) The bus stop.
(b) The gates of the school.
(c) The taxi stand.
(d) All the way home.

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

6. What is the image Tom uses to describe his idea of progress?
(a) Reclaiming land
(b) Dick on a motorcycle
(c) The guillotine
(d) An eel

7. What it the brand of Dick's motorbike?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Honda.
(c) Harley Davidson.
(d) Velocette.

8. Harry feels ridiculous in Tom's presence, because while Tom read history books Harry did what?
(a) Hunted waterfowl.
(b) Talked to chickens.
(c) Doted on Dick.
(d) Drunk himself to sleep.

9. What is the historical fact that Tom says "history scarcely finds time to mention"?
(a) That 55,000 German civilians died in the fire bombing Hamburg by the Allies.
(b) That Marie Antoinette never said the phrase, "let them eat cake."
(c) That King Arthur was not English at all, but rather Welsh.
(d) That on the eve of the French Revolution Louis XVI mourned his firstborn.

10. What is Dick's reaction to the revelation about his birth?
(a) He runs from the room, hides, and then drives off on his motorbike.
(b) He tries to kill Tom with one of the beer bottles.
(c) He laughs, jumps up and down, and cries,
(d) He shouts that he lu-lu-loves Tom.

11. Why does Tom Crick apologize to Price outside the pub?
(a) Tom thinks he wasted the students' time in his history class.
(b) Tom doesn't really know either.
(c) Tom shouts at the barman and has them both kicked out of the pub.
(d) Tom promised Price a lift but now is too drunk to drive.

12. What are Mary and Tom waiting for the last time they lie together at the windmill?
(a) For the first winter snow.
(b) For Mary to have a miscarriage.
(c) For a voice from God telling them what to do.
(d) For Dick to find them and kill them.

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

14. What is NOT a positive personality trait associated with phlegm, and one notably absent from most of the major characters of the novel?
(a) Sobriety.
(b) Fieriness.
(c) Patience.
(d) Calm.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mary tell Dick that she is pregnant with Freddie Parr's child?

2. What is the name of the Cricks' doctor?

3. Where does Tom go after he leaves Mary at the insane asylum?

4. On what days does Tom stay at home at night because Dick spends the evenings out with Mary?

5. What does Tom tell Dick about Mary's baby?

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