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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is NOT a positive personality trait associated with phlegm, and one notably absent from most of the major characters of the novel?
(a) Fieriness.
(b) Sobriety.
(c) Patience.
(d) Calm.

3. 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.

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

5. What does Tom Crick say is the mission of a history teacher?
(a) To motivate his students to be active citizens.
(b) To instill in his students a sense of destiny.
(c) To teach his students about mistakes.
(d) To make sure his students end up loving history.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Helen Crick ask to see when she is on her deathbed?

2. Instead of living up to their ideals of freedom, brotherhood, and equality, Tom says the French revolutionaries turned straight to what?

3. On what days does Tom stay at home at night because Dick spends the evenings out with Mary?

4. What is the feeling Tom has about leaving Mary at the insane asylum?

5. What is the reason Mary gives Tom for trying to seduce Dick in chapter 32?

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