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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. How would young men busy with intellectual pursuits, politics and social reform be much better off?
(a) Working in solitude.
(b) Marrying an intelligent woman.
(c) If they cultivated friendships.
(d) Not trusting others.

2. 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.

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

4. How is the narration different from chapters one through three?
(a) It is in second person in chapter four, rather than third person.
(b) It is in third person in chapter four, rather than first person.
(c) It is in first in chapter four, rather than third person.
(d) It is in first person present tense in chapter four, rather than first person past tense.

5. Who is Benjy?
(a) One of the two young farm hands.
(b) Tom's cousin.
(c) Tom's uncle.
(d) One of the two elderly farm hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Tom headed?

2. Who are two people with whom Tom is friends?

3. At what does the narrator speak at length?

4. Who tells Tom stories about the wild misbehavior of the other Rugby boys he had met?

5. What does Tom think about this day?

(see the answer key)

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