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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) Not trusting others.
(b) Working in solitude.
(c) Marrying an intelligent woman.
(d) If they cultivated friendships.

2. What are the two students doing to the coach?
(a) Teasing the horses pulling it.
(b) Trying to stop it.
(c) Throwing rocks at it.
(d) Running alongside it.

3. How does the narrative voice shift?
(a) From first person to third person.
(b) From first person present tense to first person past tense.
(c) From first person past tense to first person present tense.
(d) From third person to first person.

4. Who cares for Tom?
(a) His cousin, Sara.
(b) A local girl named Charity.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

5. This novel tells the story of a rambunctious young student. Where is he located?
(a) A public school in the Bronx in the mi-1970s.
(b) An Australian prep school in the early 1900s.
(c) A traditional English all-boys school in the mid-1800s.
(d) An American all-boys school in the early 1800s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What friendship does Tom's father encourage?

2. At what does the narrator speak at length?

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

4. What is Tom's reaction to his father's speech?

5. What does Tom think about this day?

(see the answer key)

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