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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 | Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?
(a) Her husband dies and his relatives take all his money from her, leaving her destitute.
(b) She is caught on the second floor of her house when it burns down.
(c) Her husband hits her in the head in a fit of rage, leaving her a living shell of her former self.
(d) She loses her long-awaited first child at its birth.

2. 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 lying to the class.
(c) He hates school in general, and Tom is easy to pick on.
(d) He thinks Tom is senile.

3. How does Tom eventually arrange to marry Mary, even though her father Harold Metcalf hates him?
(a) Mary ignores her father and elopes with Tom.
(b) Tom breaks into the Metcalf home at night and runs off with Mary.
(c) Tom's father Harry asks Harold for permission in the place of his son.
(d) Tom comes home a war hero, and Harold Metcalf is too embarrassed to say no.

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

5. What is the object that Dick Crick treats like it is a real person?
(a) His motorbike.
(b) His father's radio.
(c) His dead mother's sewing machine.
(d) His barge engine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the difference between animals and humans?

2. What about Mary strikes Tom when he returns from Germany at the end of World War II to marry her?

3. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?

4. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?

5. Henry Crick, Tom's father, is obsessed with one question about Freddie's death that he repeats over and over again. What is it?

(see the answer key)

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