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

2. Who is staying with Tom at the roadside inn?
(a) His mother.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

3. Tom accompanies Benjy to the farm of an Old Man who reportedly knows what?
(a) How to break a horse.
(b) The medicinal powers of herbs.
(c) How to play cudgel war.
(d) How to drive a stagecoach.

4. Who are two people with whom Tom is friends?
(a) Two elderly farm hands.
(b) Two thieves who hide out in town.
(c) Two wealthy boys from the next property over.
(d) Two young farm hands.

5. How does Tom feel about the disappearance of such games and competitions from the culture?
(a) He is sad and disappointed.
(b) He feels safer now that they have disappeared from the culture.
(c) He is glad they no longer exist.
(d) He has no feelings on the subject.

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. How is the relationship between Squire Brown and Tom?

3. Who teaches Tom how to wrestle?

4. What does the Squire give his son before he leaves?

5. How does Tom watch the combat?

(see the answer key)

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