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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Flashman do when he discovers Tom and East by the fire together?
(a) He tries to give them orders.
(b) He physically abuses them.
(c) He apologizes.
(d) He runs away.

2. What happens during an oral examination from the Doctor?
(a) Tom is punished for answering all the questions incorrectly.
(b) A boy is punished for stealing from the Doctor.
(c) Tom answers all the questions correctly.
(d) He physically disciplines a boy who had been just as careless in learning his lessons as Tom.

3. What happens to Tom and East's reputations?
(a) Their heroic reputations last for the rest of the school year.
(b) Their blackened reputations linger long after Flashman leaves.
(c) Tom and East ignore them.
(d) The other boys do not take the rumors seriously, so the reputations do not last.

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

5. Why is there a shift?
(a) The author is being creative.
(b) The author is trying to confuse the reader.
(c) The author intends to give the reader a more immediate sense of Tom's experience.
(d) The author is trying to make the story more exciting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does East tell Tom to wear Williams out?

2. Who has not gone down to watch the fight?

3. Who tells Tom stories about the wild misbehavior of the other Rugby boys he had met?

4. Through what city does Tom travel?

5. What causes a teacher and several others to change their view of Tom from respect to wariness?

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