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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom compare the sound of Dick's motorcycle to the evening Mary has broken up with Tom?
(a) The thudding of his own heart.
(b) Machine gun fire.
(c) A bomber airplane.
(d) The growling of an angry beast.

2. What is the name of the Cricks' golden retriever?
(a) Andy.
(b) Goldie.
(c) Rupert.
(d) Paddy.

3. What is the lesson about history that Tom Crick draws from the study of eel mating behavior?
(a) While humans die, some life forms like the eel seem to live forever.
(b) The eel is much more adapted to life on earth than humans are.
(c) What human beings think of as major historical events makes little difference to other life on earth.
(d) The true future of mankind lies West of the Atlantic Ocean.

4. What happens to Dick Crick when he hears the church bells ring?
(a) The sun shines on his face and he smiles.
(b) He takes Mary's hand and dies.
(c) He sees the ghost of Sarah Atkinson next to him.
(d) He hears his wife's voice in the sound of the bells.

5. 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 Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
(b) The Sarajevo Assassination of 1914.
(c) The Norman Invasion of 1066.
(d) The French Revolution of 1789.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tom Crick apologize to Price outside the pub?

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

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

4. Why does Harry Crick abandon his cottage by the Atkinson lock?

5. In Tom's mind, the headmaster thinks of the school as what, figuratively speaking?

(see the answer key)

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