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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mary's father Harold Metcalf treat Tom's father Harry?
(a) Like an angry father treats his daughter's murderer.
(b) Like a priest treats an unrepentent sinner.
(c) Like a high and mighty squire treats a supplicant serf.
(d) Like a man treats his long-lost brother.

2. What does Mary tell Tom that she does not tell the judge?
(a) That the mother had told her to take the child.
(b) That she didn't really hear a voice from God telling her to take the child.
(c) That she had planned abducting the child for a long time.
(d) That she had seen the mother pinch the child angrily.

3. In chapter 32, what is the event that Dick cannot understand?
(a) Freddie Parr's death.
(b) His mother's death.
(c) Mary's attempt to teach him about love.
(d) Finding the bottle he used to kill Freddie.

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

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

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

7. What is the feeling Tom has about leaving Mary at the insane asylum?
(a) That she will get better with time.
(b) He feels strangely elated.
(c) That he is not leaving her, but she him.
(d) He is afraid she'll be abused.

8. What is in the chest in the attic that Helen bestows upon Dick?
(a) The veil of Sarah Atkinson.
(b) Helen's crucifix.
(c) Helen's antique jewelry.
(d) Several bottles of Coronation Ale.

9. According to ancient tradition, too much phlegm is best countered with large amounts of what substance that many characters in the novel use in large quantities?
(a) Water.
(b) Hemlock.
(c) Liquor.
(d) Salt.

10. What important phrase does Tom shout to Price just before they part?
(a) Don't become like I am!
(b) All I told you was lies!
(c) Don't forget me!
(d) Don't let them do it!

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the headmaster calls the students of the Holocaust Club?

2. What is the historical fact that Tom says "history scarcely finds time to mention"?

3. Tom compares Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to what at the eve of the French Revolution?

4. Which two fictional characters does Tom compare himself and Mary to as they walk the Fenland tracks to Martha Clay's cottage?

5. What's the "old, old feeling" that Tom Crick tells Price everybody has always felt?

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