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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom think is a superstition people believed in "once upon a time"?
(a) That history matters.
(b) God.
(c) The end of the world.
(d) The goodness of human kind.

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) Get married.
(b) Stay away from each other.
(c) Repent and confess to a priest.
(d) Never mention it again.

3. What does Tom call the students?
(a) Children.
(b) Punks.
(c) The future of the world.
(d) Brothers and sisters.

4. Who buys a large house in Gildsey for the newly married Tom and Mary?
(a) Harold Metcalf.
(b) Harry Crick.
(c) Dick Crick.
(d) Tom Crick.

5. 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) Overwhelmed.
(d) Embarrassed.

6. How old is Mary when she steals the baby?
(a) 63.
(b) 45.
(c) 15.
(d) 52.

7. How does Harry Crick find out that his son Dick is in love with Mary?
(a) He overhears Dick talking to himself about Mary.
(b) Dick angrily shouts at Tom to stay away from Mary.
(c) Mary's father, Harold Metcalf, asks him to keep Dick away from Mary.
(d) Dick asks how babies are made.

8. What's the "old, old feeling" that Tom Crick tells Price everybody has always felt?
(a) That life must have meaning.
(b) That everything might amount to nothing.
(c) That nobody really understand anyone.
(d) That maybe there is no God.

9. What is the name of the Cricks' golden retriever?
(a) Goldie.
(b) Paddy.
(c) Andy.
(d) Rupert.

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

11. What is the title Ernest Atkinson gives Dick in the letter?
(a) Earl of Gildsey.
(b) An expletive.
(c) Saviour of the World.
(d) Most Beloved Grandson.

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

13. What does the headmaster calls the students of the Holocaust Club?
(a) Exemplary visionaries.
(b) Prophets of doom.
(c) Fear-mongering morons.
(d) Crick-loving losers.

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

15. What does Price shout when Tom Crick stands up to give his farewell speech?
(a) History is dead!
(b) Shut up! Get out!
(c) No cuts! Keep Crick!
(d) All teachers are fascists!

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the image Tom uses to describe his idea of progress?

2. While Harry Crick recovers from his ordeal, whom does Mary remind him of?

3. Who dies of the flu?

4. While Martha locks herself in with Mary, she asks Tom to do what outside?

5. Harry feels ridiculous in Tom's presence, because while Tom read history books Harry did what?

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