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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Price shout when Tom Crick stands up to give his farewell speech?
(a) All teachers are fascists!
(b) History is dead!
(c) Shut up! Get out!
(d) No cuts! Keep Crick!

3. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?
(a) Who?
(b) How?
(c) Why?
(d) When?

4. Which of the boys' bodies does Mary appear to be most interested in?
(a) Dick Crick.
(b) Terry Coe.
(c) Freddie Parr.
(d) Tom Crick.

5. Tom Crick's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?
(a) Tom Crick hit her over the head and she lost her mind.
(b) She stole a baby from a stroller in a supermarket.
(c) She began to scream at odd times of the night.
(d) She has developed Alzheimer's disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Cricks find the body of Freddie Parr?

2. 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?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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