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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From the perspective of the narrator, what is one long fight or series of fights?
(a) Life.
(b) Friendships.
(c) Parenthood.
(d) School.

2. Who teaches Tom how to wrestle?
(a) The boys attending the local private school.
(b) The two farm hands.
(c) The sons of the village laborers.
(d) The Squire.

3. Who shows Tom around the school?
(a) The Doctor.
(b) Martin.
(c) East.
(d) Arthur.

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?
(a) Playing games and taunting their teachers.
(b) Staying up late and sleeping in.
(c) Girls and their own appearances.
(d) Football and other sports.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom defend Arthur from the taunts of some of the older boys?

2. How does Tom feel about helping Diggs?

3. What has happens to East during the game?

4. A few weeks before Arthur was to be sent to Rugby, what happens to his father and mother?

5. What is a traditional, local village fair with booths of food for sale, games of chance, and contests of physical strength and courage?

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