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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 does Tom watch the combat?
(a) With fear.
(b) With a sense of boredom.
(c) With anxiety.
(d) With excitement.

2. What does Tom's landowning family rarely, if ever, do?
(a) Leave the county in which Tom is born.
(b) Stay at home.
(c) Leave London.
(d) Sell property to other families.

3. Who is timing the boys?
(a) The boys' father.
(b) The Squire.
(c) Tom.
(d) The coachman.

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

5. What is Tom's reaction to his father's speech?
(a) Near-tearful.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) Irritated.
(d) Fearful.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the relationship between Squire Brown and Tom?

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

3. Who is staying with Tom at the roadside inn?

4. Who wakes Tom at the roadside inn?

5. Why is there a shift?

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