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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who shows Tom around the school?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Martin.
(c) East.
(d) The Doctor.

2. What happens during an oral examination from the Doctor?
(a) A boy is punished for stealing from the Doctor.
(b) Tom answers all the questions correctly.
(c) He physically disciplines a boy who had been just as careless in learning his lessons as Tom.
(d) Tom is punished for answering all the questions incorrectly.

3. What do Tom and East convince other boys their age to do?
(a) Break into the Doctor's office.
(b) Refuse to obey Flashman's orders.
(c) Listen to Flahsman's orders.
(d) Steal from the school.

4. Who is Benjy?
(a) Tom's uncle.
(b) One of the two elderly farm hands.
(c) Tom's cousin.
(d) One of the two young farm hands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Old Brooke do at the end of the singing?

2. What does Diggs realize about Flashman? Once he realizes this, he hauls him to his feet and shoves him out of the room.

3. In what are his words grounded?

4. What causes a teacher and several others to change their view of Tom from respect to wariness?

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

(see the answer key)

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