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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what are his words grounded?
(a) Envy and jealously
(b) Sadness and fear.
(c) Genuine affection and concern.
(d) Hope and love.

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

3. How is Tom's mother known?
(a) Mrs. Brown.
(b) Miss Brown.
(c) Rachel Brown.
(d) Madam Brown.

4. What is a traditional, local village fair with booths of food for sale, games of chance, and contests of physical strength and courage?
(a) The festival.
(b) The celebration.
(c) The fete.
(d) The veast.

5. At what does the narrator speak at length?
(a) His unhappiness in the abilities of public schools to train boys for adulthood.
(b) His frustration at British people not knowing much about their home country.
(c) His happiness that Americans know so much about their history during the Colonial Period.
(d) His frustration in the difficulty in finding decent forms of travel in his part of the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is Tom proud to pay?

2. What happens shortly after Tom's arrival to a private school?

3. What is the tone of the Squire's words to his son?

4. Tom accompanies Benjy to the farm of an Old Man who reportedly knows what?

5. When is Tom's father, the Squire, liberal?

(see the answer key)

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