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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 5, 6 and 7.

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

2. What narrative form is initially used in this chapter?
(a) First person past tense.
(b) Second person.
(c) First person present tense.
(d) Third person.

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

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

5. What happens shortly after Tom's arrival to a private school?
(a) He becomes homesick and moves back home.
(b) He becomes friends with East.
(c) He is expelled for fighting.
(d) The boys are sent home as the result of an outbreak of flu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom's landowning family rarely, if ever, do?

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

3. Who wakes Tom at the roadside inn?

4. What are the older boys drinking?

5. What has happens to East during the game?

(see the answer key)

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