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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 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?
(a) Cudgel war.
(b) Backgammon.
(c) Ultimate fighting.
(d) Back-sword.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator admire?

2. What friendship does Tom's father encourage?

3. What does the Squire give his son before he leaves?

4. What narrative form is initially used in this chapter?

5. Through what city does Tom travel?

(see the answer key)

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