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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two students doing to the coach?
(a) Teasing the horses pulling it.
(b) Running alongside it.
(c) Throwing rocks at it.
(d) Trying to stop it.

2. What is essentially East's character?
(a) The idea that he cannot stand hypocrisy.
(b) He is enthusiastic and lovable.
(c) He is lazy and uneducated.
(d) The idea that education is not important.

3. What does the Doctor tell Young Brooke?
(a) To send the boys to him.
(b) To continue the fight tomorrow.
(c) To make sure the fight does not resume.
(d) To punish the boys himself.

4. Who does Tom's mother take in, train, and pass on to other jobs?
(a) Horses.
(b) Young men.
(c) Slave girls.
(d) Young women.

5. How do both Tom and East feel?
(a) They are both stiff and in pain after both the game and the tossing.
(b) Excited and full of energy.
(c) Tired.
(d) Bored.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator find to be a necessity and an aspect of human nature?

2. How does Tom defend Arthur from the taunts of some of the older boys?

3. How is Arthur, physically, at this point in the story?

4. What friendship does Tom's father encourage?

5. What surprises and startles Tom?

(see the answer key)

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