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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 do Tom and East go into the village?
(a) To buy hunting supplies.
(b) To buy some food for their tea.
(c) They want to see the girls from the other public school.
(d) To buy their school books.

2. Upon what does Tom reflect?
(a) How much he misses his family.
(b) On his life before leaving for school.
(c) On his old school.
(d) How he's never had a more pleasant day.

3. What does Diggs, who is studying nearby, tell Tom and East to do to Flashman?
(a) To run away.
(b) To taunt Flahman.
(c) Tackle him together.
(d) To call for the Doctor.

4. Flashman spreads rumors that do what to the reputations of Tom and East?
(a) Make them heroes.
(b) Improve them.
(c) Instill fear in all the other boys.
(d) Blacken their reputations even more.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is timing the boys?

2. How does Flashman end up on the floor, bleeding?

3. What has happens to East during the game?

4. Who does the narrator admire?

5. How do both Tom and East feel?

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