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

2. Who wakes Tom at the roadside inn?
(a) East.
(b) His father.
(c) A servant.
(d) The coachman.

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

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

5. When is Tom's father, the Squire, liberal?
(a) In his dealing out of money.
(b) When it comes to the boys he believes with whom Tom could or should make friends.
(c) When it comes to the women he dates.
(d) When he is voting for politicians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom's reaction to his father's speech reveal?

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

3. Why is Tom so proud?

4. How does Tom watch the combat?

5. In what are his words grounded?

(see the answer key)

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