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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Arthur speak about at length?
(a) His joy of seeing his friends again.
(b) His fear of, and resistance to, death.
(c) His father.
(d) His love of Rugby School.

2. What is essentially East's character?
(a) He is lazy and uneducated.
(b) He is enthusiastic and lovable.
(c) The idea that education is not important.
(d) The idea that he cannot stand hypocrisy.

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

4. What does Tom do after he writes his mother a letter?
(a) He goes to the Chapel to pray.
(b) He goes to sleep.
(c) He kneels to say his prayers.
(d) He writes his father a letter.

5. What has happened by the time Tom and Arthur have left the school?
(a) The boys all pray in the Chapel.
(b) Most of the boys kneel and pray at bedtime.
(c) They are now the bullies.
(d) The bullying has ended.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tom not pay much attention to the first church service?

2. Old Brooke and other boys like him leave the school. How are they described?

3. How does Tom fight for the first couple of rounds?

4. Tom accompanies Benjy to the farm of an Old Man who reportedly knows what?

5. Where has Martin gone?

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