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

2. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?
(a) Theological.
(b) Physiological.
(c) Ideological.
(d) Psychological.

3. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?
(a) E Pluribus Unum.
(b) Quid Pro Quo.
(c) Sine Qua Non.
(d) Ex Aqua Fermentum.

4. 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 ran a famous brewery.
(c) They owned a major textile factory.
(d) They helped drain the marshes by buiding locks and canals.

5. What does Tom dream that he considers telling the headmaster about?
(a) He dreams of a woman wailing in a supermarket.
(b) He dreams of Price as the Prime Minister of Britain.
(c) He dreams of Mary as she was when she was 15.
(d) He dreams of the headmaster drowning in a canal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?

2. What does Tom compare his father to as every day he sees him trudge back and forth along the canal?

3. How does Tom react to Mary's statement that "everything has changed" with Freddie's death.

4. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?

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

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