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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tom determined to avoid?
(a) Arguing.
(b) Doing school work.
(c) Cheating.
(d) Fighting.

2. Where does Tom travel after he leaves Rugby School?
(a) London.
(b) New York.
(c) To his parents' home.
(d) Stockholm.

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

4. What does Young Brooke have Tom and Williams do?
(a) Finish the fight.
(b) Wear dunce caps in the corner.
(c) Move out.
(d) Shake hands.

5. As the schoolboys and the spectators prepare for a post match party, where does Tom go?
(a) Back to a teacher's home for tea.
(b) To a local pub with the cricket team.
(c) He goes home to pray.
(d) He meets East at a private party.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Martin gone?

2. How does Tom fight for the first couple of rounds?

3. Of whom does Tom want to catch a glimpse?

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

5. What does Tom debate with one of the teachers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the farmer on the look-out for boys from Rugby?

2. What does Tom's reaction during a debate over the Old Testament with East and Arthur show about his idea of compromise?

3. What takes place between Young Brooke and the Doctor, after the boys have quickly dispersed?

4. How does Tom get into a fight?

5. Two years have passed. How are Arthur, Martin, East, and Tom doing?

6. What rumor becomes reality?

7. How does Arthur's body handle the trek to the kestrel's nest?

8. What does Williams have against Arthur?

9. How does Tom feel about Arthur wanting to be friends with Martin?

10. What does Arthur do when he begins to fear for Tom's safety?

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