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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. How does Tom react to finding the child Mary has stolen?
(a) He is too dumbfounded to react.
(b) He grabs it and they struggle.
(c) He shouts for help.
(d) He immediately calls the police.

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

5. 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) Mary tells Tom if he can find out the truth about how eels mate, she'll stop her love lessons 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) His memory of an eel in Mary's knickers and his need to take his mind off Mary being with Dick.

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

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 happens to Dick Crick when he hears the church bells ring?
(a) He sees the ghost of Sarah Atkinson next to him.
(b) He hears his wife's voice in the sound of the bells.
(c) He takes Mary's hand and dies.
(d) The sun shines on his face and he smiles.

9. What is NOT a function of phlegm that Tom mentions in chapter 51?
(a) Protecting.
(b) Lubricating.
(c) Insulating.
(d) Cleansing.

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

11. 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) Civilians shouldn't have to prop up the government.
(c) Teachers shouldn't have to prop up their student's future.
(d) The smart should not have to prop up the ignorant.

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

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

14. Whom does Helen Crick ask to see when she is on her deathbed?
(a) Dick.
(b) Tom.
(c) Ernest.
(d) Harry.

15. 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) To laugh at someone.
(c) An excuse to hate.
(d) Drama.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Harry Crick abandon his cottage by the Atkinson lock?

3. What is the name of the Cricks' golden retriever?

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

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

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