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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25 | Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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 pretty girls in the town were disdainful of him.
(c) The mud felt the same and eels swam in the pools.
(d) The army served the same ale the Atkinsons brewed in Gildsey.

3. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?
(a) He closes the Atkinson brewery.
(b) He sells the Water Transport Company.
(c) He sells Kessling Hall, their estate.
(d) He takes a ruinous Grand Tour of Europe.

4. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?
(a) Geography.
(b) General Studies.
(c) Liberal Arts.
(d) Civics.

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 premature setting off of the evening's fireworks.
(c) The mass desertion of the army troops stationed in the town to the taverns.
(d) Wild improvisations by the marching band.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freddie Parr do to Mary as revenge for setting him up to lose the competition because she knew he couldn't swim?

3. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?

4. What secret does Tom reveal to his students about Lewis Scott, the headmaster of the school?

5. Tom confronts Price about his frequent interruptions during class. What question does Price's reluctance about history boil down to?

(see the answer key)

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