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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. The headmaster of the school where Tom Crick teaches history thinks Tom should retire from his job. Why?
(a) History will be eliminated from the curriculum.
(b) Tom Crick has stopped teaching the syllabus.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The headmaster does not like Tom Crick.

2. What does Tom Crick find in the river that he thinks caused the bruise that killed Freddie Parr?
(a) A wrench Dick uses to fix his motorbike.
(b) A beer bottle from the defunct Atkinson brewery.
(c) A cricket bat with an odd indentation and a label that reads F.P.
(d) A metal ball from a slingshot Tom has seen Jack Parr use to kill birds.

3. How does Freddie Parr's father Jack react to the ruling by the court that Freddie's death was an accident?
(a) He goes to sit on the train tracks to commit suicide, but no train appears.
(b) He has a heart attack in the court room and dies on the spot.
(c) He curses the judge and accuses Tom Crick of killing Freddie.
(d) He walks out of the court room and is never seen again.

4. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?
(a) Nature.
(b) Their neighbor's son George.
(c) God.
(d) His brother Dick.

5. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
(a) Eager.
(b) Aloof.
(c) Passive.
(d) Curious.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?

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