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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. What narrative form is initially used in this chapter?
(a) Third person.
(b) First person past tense.
(c) Second person.
(d) First person present tense.

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

3. What happens shortly after Tom's arrival to a private school?
(a) He is expelled for fighting.
(b) He becomes friends with East.
(c) The boys are sent home as the result of an outbreak of flu.
(d) He becomes homesick and moves back home.

4. How is Benjy's search for a cure for his rheumatism?
(a) He finds absolutely no possible remedy.
(b) He meets only with a half-heartedly offered potion.
(c) It is successful.
(d) He meets with many successful remedies.

5. What does Tom's reaction to his father's speech reveal?
(a) How much he dislikes his father.
(b) The very formal and distant relationship he and his father have.
(c) How much he and his father disagree.
(d) The emotional and intellectual respect with which he regards his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom watch the combat?

2. How does the narrative voice shift?

3. 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?

4. Who does the narrator admire?

5. Through what city does Tom travel?

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