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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 | Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
(a) They represented the Gildsey district in parliament.
(b) They owned a major textile factory.
(c) They helped drain the marshes by buiding locks and canals.
(d) They ran a famous brewery.

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

3. What does Tom compare his father to as every day he sees him trudge back and forth along the canal?
(a) A blind ox.
(b) A tethered dog.
(c) A chained falcon.
(d) A caged wolf.

4. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?
(a) That she is about to run off to London to hide from her father.
(b) That she is pregnant from Tom, but told Dick it was Freddie's child.
(c) That she pushed Freddie into the river.
(d) That she saw Freddie attack Dick the night before by the river bridge.

5. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?
(a) The men were silent and preferred to keep to themselves.
(b) The mud felt the same and eels swam in the pools.
(c) The army served the same ale the Atkinsons brewed in Gildsey.
(d) The pretty girls in the town were disdainful of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?

2. Why does his most outspoken student reject Tom Crick's attempt to teach the class history?

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

4. How did Tom's parents meet?

5. What World War I battle was Tom's father injured in and saw his brother killed in earlier in the day?

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