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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else does Tom and the teacher debate?
(a) Which pub has the best beer.
(b) Whether the changes in the running of the school made by the Doctor are positive or negative.
(c) Whether Rugby or the London team will win.
(d) Who should be the prime minister.

2. What does the narrator find to be a necessity and an aspect of human nature?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Fear.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Dishonesty.

3. What does Arthur tell Tom about Martin?
(a) Martin is picking on him.
(b) Martin has no friends.
(c) He does not trust Martin.
(d) He is interested in becoming friends with Martin.

4. Where has Martin gone?
(a) To a school in London.
(b) On a trip to Australia.
(c) Back home.
(d) He is on an expedition to the South Seas.

5. When does Arthur experience a spiritual vision?
(a) In class.
(b) During his sleep.
(c) When his fever is most intense.
(d) During a church service.

6. Where is Tom when he receives news of the Doctor's death?
(a) He is on a fishing trip in Scotland.
(b) In his home town.
(c) In America.
(d) On a boat in the South Seas.

7. Why is anyone who dares to taunt Tom quickly silenced?
(a) He has a reputation for toughness.
(b) The Doctor does not tolerate taunting.
(c) East has a reputation for toughness.
(d) Arthur is very protective of Tom.

8. According to East, what do the teachers want from students, regarding learning?
(a) They want them to be engaged in what they are studying.
(b) They do not care how students learn, they just want the students to have learned.
(c) They want them to be lifelong learners.
(d) They want them to memorize information that is unimportant.

9. A few weeks before Arthur was to be sent to Rugby, what happens to his father and mother?
(a) They adopt another child.
(b) They are murdered in a robbery that went bad.
(c) They move to London.
(d) Both become ill with typhus.

10. What does Tom discover that makes him so upset?
(a) Martin and Arthur have been out hunting for birds' eggs without him.
(b) Martin has verbally abused Arthur.
(c) East, Martin, and Arthur are leaving him out of their adventures.
(d) Martin and Arthur are spreading rumors about him.

11. Of what does Young Brooke convince the Doctor?
(a) There was no fight.
(b) The fight is dangerous and the boys should be punished.
(c) The fight was not necessarily a bad thing,
(d) The boys are only playing.

12. Why does Arthur not play with other boys but spends time studying the Bible and discussing philosophy with his father?
(a) He does not like sports.
(b) He is always sickly.
(c) He does not have any friends.
(d) He is in a wheelchair.

13. What do the other boys at the school do because they want to gain the favor of the Doctor?
(a) Behave in class.
(b) Bring him gifts.
(c) Attend church services.
(d) Get confirmed.

14. Who comes out to see what is going on?
(a) Arthur.
(b) The School Nurse.
(c) The Squire.
(d) The Doctor.

15. What does Tom debate with one of the teachers?
(a) Whether or not Tom cheated on a test.
(b) Whether Tom's studies in Greek are more or less useful in life than his increasing skills at cricket.
(c) Whether Tom should leave Rugby or become a teacher.
(d) Whether or not Tom should take a cricket scholarship to Oxford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tom decide to send Arthur into the game?

2. From the perspective of the narrator, what is one long fight or series of fights?

3. Arthur's mother had been born into high society. How does she feel about the quiet rural life she shared with her husband?

4. Why does Tom get into a fight?

5. As the schoolboys and the spectators prepare for a post match party, where does Tom go?

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