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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 5, 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the students headed after roll call?
(a) Their dormatories.
(b) To a movie.
(c) The football pitch.
(d) A meeting.

2. Who tells Tom stories about the wild misbehavior of the other Rugby boys he had met?
(a) The coachman.
(b) His father.
(c) The owner of the roadside inn.
(d) The boys he meets at school.

3. Who is Benjy?
(a) One of the two young farm hands.
(b) Tom's cousin.
(c) Tom's uncle.
(d) One of the two elderly farm hands.

4. 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?
(a) Backgammon.
(b) Ultimate fighting.
(c) Back-sword.
(d) Cudgel war.

5. Why is East so confident in his knowledge and his worth, even though he has only been at Rugby for six months?
(a) He has been enrolled in public school before.
(b) He is older than most students in his grade.
(c) By simply being at Rugby.
(d) He can see Tom is unsure of himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Old Brooke say to Tom?

2. How is Benjy's search for a cure for his rheumatism?

3. What is a traditional, local village fair with booths of food for sale, games of chance, and contests of physical strength and courage?

4. What does Old Brooke encourage all the boys to do?

5. What does the Doctor's sermon encourage?

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