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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. What is the tone of the Squire's words to his son?
(a) It is quick and witty.
(b) It is sad and distressing.
(c) It is careful and rational.
(d) It is cheerful and boisterous.

2. What does Tom's reaction to his father's speech reveal?
(a) How much he and his father disagree.
(b) The emotional and intellectual respect with which he regards his father.
(c) How much he dislikes his father.
(d) The very formal and distant relationship he and his father have.

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

4. What are the older boys drinking?
(a) Wine.
(b) Soda.
(c) Mild beer.
(d) Water.

5. What does Tom ask East regarding Brooke?
(a) If Brooke is mean.
(b) If Brooke is good at playing football.
(c) If Brooke is the team captain.
(d) If Brooke will let Tom play in the game.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom watch the combat?

2. How is the meal in the common room and roll call?

3. What do Flashman and his cronies do to Tom?

4. Tom starts his first full year in the company of East and several other young students who seem more interested in what than in concentrating on their lessons?

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?

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