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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21 | Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?
(a) The Empress of India.
(b) The Crimean Victory.
(c) The Golden Jubilee.
(d) The Grand '51.

2. What does Tom Crick's new-coined term "histrionics" refer to?
(a) Throwing an angry fit because what has happened is history and cannot be changed.
(b) The combined study of history and economics.
(c) Changing history through technology.
(d) Being hysterically enthusiastic about something.

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

4. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?
(a) Pudding.
(b) Quicksand.
(c) Phlegm.
(d) An obese matron.

5. The effects of Ernest's special ale caused all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) The near-collision of two pleasure boats whose steersmen had drunk too much.
(b) The mass desertion of the army troops stationed in the town to the taverns.
(c) The premature setting off of the evening's fireworks.
(d) Wild improvisations by the marching band.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hunted in Greenwich Park, where Tom and Mary sit in the evenings with their dog?

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

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

4. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?

5. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?

(see the answer key)

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