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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. Who teaches Tom how to wrestle?
(a) The boys attending the local private school.
(b) The Squire.
(c) The sons of the village laborers.
(d) The two farm hands.

2. What is Tom given?
(a) A ride on a stagecoach.
(b) A cudgel.
(c) A young foal.
(d) A cure for a wart on his hand.

3. At what does the narrator speak at length?
(a) His frustration at British people not knowing much about their home country.
(b) His happiness that Americans know so much about their history during the Colonial Period.
(c) His unhappiness in the abilities of public schools to train boys for adulthood.
(d) His frustration in the difficulty in finding decent forms of travel in his part of the country.

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

5. How is the relationship between Squire Brown and Tom?
(a) Awkward.
(b) Unhealthy.
(c) Distant.
(d) A gruff intimacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the boys being timed?

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

3. What are the two students doing to the coach?

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

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

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