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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the historical event that Tom Crick keeps returning to over and over again as he explains that history seems to move in a circle?
(a) The Norman Invasion of 1066.
(b) The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
(c) The French Revolution of 1789.
(d) The Sarajevo Assassination of 1914.

3. What is NOT one of the emblems of by-gone years that Tom includes in his list of memories he wants Mary to recall?
(a) Two crossed ears of barley on ships' bows.
(b) Steam trains.
(c) Fireworks over the Fens.
(d) Fairy tales.

4. What World War I battle was Tom's father injured in and saw his brother killed in earlier in the day?
(a) Ypres.
(b) Marne.
(c) Somme.
(d) Verdun.

5. During the festivities for the newly crowned King George V, the New Atkinson Brewery is destroyed. How?
(a) A delivery truck rams one of the main pillars and collapses the building.
(b) An accidental explosion in the boiler room.
(c) A fire nobody can explain.
(d) An overexcited mob looking for more ale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ernest Atkinson do that marks the first step in his family's economic decline?

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

3. What is the worst thing Tom Crick can imagine?

4. What does Tom Crick mean by the term "Natural History"?

5. Why does Tom Crick decide to study the history of the Fens?

(see the answer key)

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