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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. 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 trying to make the story more exciting.
(d) The author is being creative.

2. How is the meal in the common room and roll call?
(a) Boring.
(b) Silent.
(c) Noisy.
(d) Quiet.

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

4. 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.

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) Ultimate fighting.
(c) Backgammon.
(d) Cudgel war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Tom so proud?

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

3. Upon what does Tom reflect?

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

5. Why do the boys get together in the common room?

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