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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What convinced Tom Crick that he should study and teach history?
(a) Hearing about the murder of six million Jews during the war.
(b) A conversation with a German POW who says history has ended in 1945.
(c) Seeing destroyed German cities after World War II.
(d) Receiving a history book as a secret gift from Mary when he leaves for the war.

2. Why does Tom Crick apologize to Price outside the pub?
(a) Tom thinks he wasted the students' time in his history class.
(b) Tom promised Price a lift but now is too drunk to drive.
(c) Tom doesn't really know either.
(d) Tom shouts at the barman and has them both kicked out of the pub.

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

4. When Harry Crick hears that Mary told her father that Tom is the father of her aborted child, what does he tell Tom they should do?
(a) Get married.
(b) Stay away from each other.
(c) Repent and confess to a priest.
(d) Never mention it again.

5. How old is Sarah Atkinson when she dies?
(a) 68 years.
(b) 99 years.
(c) 92 years.
(d) 37 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ernest Atkinson's maid Jane Shaw think she saw in the old Atkinson townhouse as the brewery was burning?

2. On what days does Tom stay at home at night because Dick spends the evenings out with Mary?

3. What does Tom notice for the first time when Mary struggles with Freddie Parr's prank?

4. Which of the following is NOT a theory that biologists have put forward about how eels reproduce?

5. What did the inquest decide was the cause of Freddie Parr's death?

(see the answer key)

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