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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the Cricks find the body of Freddie Parr?
(a) Sprawled in shrubbery by the side of the Ouse River Road.
(b) Drifting along the canal at the Atkinson Lock.
(c) Hung from the rafters in the Cricks' barn.
(d) Slumped over the table at Jack Parr's house.

2. What does the phrase "in loco parentis" mean?
(a) Because of parental insanity.
(b) In place of the parents.
(c) According to the logic of the parents.
(d) Placed in parentheses.

3. What is Tom Crick's response to this revelation?
(a) He turns Freddie Parr in to the police constable.
(b) He begins to be afraid of Dick.
(c) He reads history books when Dick is out wooing Mary.
(d) He starts flirting intensely with Mary to outdo all the other boys.

4. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?
(a) A bomber airplane.
(b) Machine gun fire.
(c) The thudding of his own heart.
(d) The growling of an angry beast.

5. Who says, "explaining's a way of avoiding the facts while you pretend to get near to them?"
(a) Tom Crick.
(b) Mary Crick.
(c) Lewis Scott.
(d) Price.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ernest Atkinson's reaction to the fire?

2. Which of the following is NOT a theory that biologists have put forward about how eels reproduce?

3. How did Tom's parents meet?

4. What does Ernest Atkinson convert his manor Kessling Hall into?

5. What marks the end of Ernest Atkinson's political career?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of phlegm for the body according to chapter 51?

2. In chapter 35, Tom Crick returns home from a day of teaching to find Mary has done what?

3. In chapter 38, Tom describes the death of his mother from the flu. What is most remarkable about it to him?

4. IIn Chapter 43, what significant change occurs in Tom and Price's attitude toward history?

5. Chapter 49 is one more chapter Tom Crick spends lamenting what happens when idealists begin revolutions and lose sight of their ideals. What is that example?

6. In chapter 33, Tom Crick takes Price to a bar to have a drink. What is the question Price asks Tom that shakes Tom the most?

7. Briefly discuss how, in chapter 44, his interview with the police unravels Tom's earlier ideas about teaching the facts of history.

8. In chapter 14, Tom Crick's student Price asks him whether Tom thinks "we can find whatever we like in history." What it Tom's reply?

9. In chapter 28, Tom explains why he turned to history and stories as passionately as he did. Why is that?

10. In chapter 50, Harry Crick spends a lot of time thinking about the significance of the bed he is lying in. What is his conclusion?

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