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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33 | Chapter 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Price.
(d) Lewis Scott.

3. What does Tom Crick mean by the term "Natural History"?
(a) The history of the world as seen through the lense of science.
(b) The history of animals, plants, and other life forms.
(c) History as it would progress if humans didn't attempt to interfere in it constantly.
(d) The study of human nature through stories to see what human beings truly are like.

4. What does Mary fail to explain to Dick properly, with terrible consequences?
(a) That she is truly in love with Tom.
(b) That she is truly in love with Dick.
(c) That she is truly in love with Freddie.
(d) How children are actually made.

5. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?
(a) He hates school in general, and Tom is easy to pick on.
(b) He thinks Tom is senile.
(c) He thinks Tom is lying to the class.
(d) He thinks history is imaginary and doesn't matter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom confronts Price about his frequent interruptions during class. What question does Price's reluctance about history boil down to?

2. What about the scene at the Lode does NOT remind Tom of the later scene of Freddie Parr's death?

3. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?

4. What does Tom Crick's new-coined term "histrionics" refer to?

5. What sparks Tom Crick's interest in the mating habits of eels?

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