1. What does East tell Tom?
(a) Do not run onto the soccer pitch.
(b) The school is boring.
(c) To leave Rugby.
(d) He has arrived on a good day.

2. Why do the boys get together in the common room?
(a) To watch television.
(b) To discuss the football match.
(c) To sing a series of traditional songs.
(d) To pray.

3. Why does Flashman leave the school?
(a) He fails all of his classes.
(b) He has beaten up too many students.
(c) He curses at a teacher.
(d) He is caught getting publicly drunk.

4. When does Tom decide he is acting foolish?
(a) When cheating on a test did not help him pass it.
(b) They allow him to join them.
(c) He realizes they did not spread the rumors.
(d) He sees how excited and happy Arthur has become.

5. Who is timing the boys?
(a) Tom.
(b) The coachman.
(c) The Squire.
(d) The boys' father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What involves two men, each carrying a wooden cudgel or club, climbing into what might be described as a kind of boxing ring, and fighting to see who can make the other's scalp bleed first?

2. What does the Doctor's sermon encourage?

3. Why does Arthur not play with other boys but spends time studying the Bible and discussing philosophy with his father?

4. What has increased in Tom's life?

5. Who takes control of the school when Old Brooke and other older boys leave?

(see the answer key)

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