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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Stay away from each other.
(d) Never mention it again.

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

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

5. What is the name of the student club that Price is part of?
(a) Concerned Students for Democratic Change.
(b) The Holocaust Club/Anti-Armageddon League.
(c) The Tom Crick Admirers Association.
(d) The Students For the Future Society.

6. Where does Tom Crick take Price to talk about Tom's forced retirement?
(a) A pub called The Duke's Head.
(b) Greenwich Park.
(c) Gildsey.
(d) The British Library in downtown London.

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. What is the way out everybody in Price's nightmare uses except for Price?
(a) Turning themselves into more black dogs.
(b) Covering their ears.
(c) The classroom window.
(d) Suicide pills.

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

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

15. What does Mary stare at all day at the mental hospital?
(a) A travel picture book of the Fens.
(b) The ceiling of her room.
(c) A picture of Dick Crick.
(d) The playground children across the road.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mary's father Harold Metcalf treat Tom's father Harry?

2. In Tom's mind, the headmaster thinks of the school as what, figuratively speaking?

3. What is the phrase Tom uses about who should not have to prop up whom?

4. What to Tom and Mary ask Martha to help them with?

5. Tom Crick compares the end of a person's life to...

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