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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. Why is Tom so proud?
(a) He's acting just like a grownup.
(b) He loves his mother.
(c) He enjoys the inn.
(d) He is wealthier than all the other boys at the school.

2. Tom and East return to Rugby, after a holiday, full of what?
(a) Regret and despair.
(b) Excitement and plans for the new term.
(c) Anxiousness and stress.
(d) Fear and anxiety.

3. What happens to Tom and East's reputations?
(a) The other boys do not take the rumors seriously, so the reputations do not last.
(b) Their blackened reputations linger long after Flashman leaves.
(c) Tom and East ignore them.
(d) Their heroic reputations last for the rest of the school year.

4. What rumor is spreading?
(a) Influenza.
(b) A potentially dangerous fever has started to spread through the school.
(c) That Williams and Tom will fight again.
(d) A rash.

5. How is Arthur, physically, at this point in the story?
(a) He is weaker than when he first arrived.
(b) He is the same.
(c) He is stronger than Tom.
(d) He becomes physically sturdier and more active.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would young men busy with intellectual pursuits, politics and social reform be much better off?

2. Later, on what do Tom, Martin, Arthur, and East set off?

3. Why is there a shift?

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

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

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