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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dick's reaction to the revelation about his birth?
(a) He laughs, jumps up and down, and cries,
(b) He runs from the room, hides, and then drives off on his motorbike.
(c) He shouts that he lu-lu-loves Tom.
(d) He tries to kill Tom with one of the beer bottles.

2. Where does the old Mary Crick claim she got her child without being pregnant?
(a) From the supermarket.
(b) From God.
(c) From her neighbor's son George.
(d) She found it on the doorstep.

3. What is the historical fact that Tom says "history scarcely finds time to mention"?
(a) That 55,000 German civilians died in the fire bombing Hamburg by the Allies.
(b) That on the eve of the French Revolution Louis XVI mourned his firstborn.
(c) That King Arthur was not English at all, but rather Welsh.
(d) That Marie Antoinette never said the phrase, "let them eat cake."

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

5. Tom dislikes the pike because...
(a) The pike smells awful.
(b) Pikes were swarming around Freddie Parr's body.
(c) Pikes are killers and scares him.
(d) The pike reminds him of Dick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important phrase does Tom shout to Price just before they part?

2. What does Tom compare the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to?

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

4. What is NOT a positive personality trait associated with phlegm, and one notably absent from most of the major characters of the novel?

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

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