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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Old Brooke do at the end of the singing?
(a) He stands up and gives a speech.
(b) He stands up and leaves.
(c) He argues with East.
(d) He reprimands the younger boys.

2. What are the excellent qualities of the Brown family?
(a) Wealth, prosperity, and strength.
(b) Strength, courage, and determination.
(c) Faith, hope, and charity.
(d) Kindness, love, and modesty.

3. Why is Tom staying at the roadside inn?
(a) He is traveling to visit relatives.
(b) He is on his way to visit London.
(c) He waits for a coach.
(d) He is headed home from his first school.

4. Where is Tom headed?
(a) Oxford University.
(b) Rugby School.
(c) Riddell School.
(d) London.

5. What happens during an oral examination from the Doctor?
(a) Tom is punished for answering all the questions incorrectly.
(b) He physically disciplines a boy who had been just as careless in learning his lessons as Tom.
(c) A boy is punished for stealing from the Doctor.
(d) Tom answers all the questions correctly.

6. What do Tom and East convince other boys their age to do?
(a) Refuse to obey Flashman's orders.
(b) Steal from the school.
(c) Listen to Flahsman's orders.
(d) Break into the Doctor's office.

7. What does East warn Tom?
(a) The curriculum at Rugby is very difficult.
(b) Flashman will want Tom as a friend.
(c) Flashman and some of the older boys will come looking for them to play the game of tossing them in a blanket.
(d) School starts early in the morning.

8. Instead of focusing on increasing their level of sophistication and the amount of money they possess,What would young men be able to do?
(a) "Enjoy life and all its advantages."
(b) "Value a man wholly and solely for what was in him."
(c) "Tease and torture a man who does not care about wealth and his standing in society."
(d) "Value to price of a pound and put it to good use."

9. How is the relationship between Squire Brown and Tom?
(a) Awkward.
(b) Unhealthy.
(c) A gruff intimacy.
(d) Distant.

10. How is the meal in the common room and roll call?
(a) Quiet.
(b) Silent.
(c) Boring.
(d) Noisy.

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

12. What does East tell Tom?
(a) The school is boring.
(b) Do not run onto the soccer pitch.
(c) He has arrived on a good day.
(d) To leave Rugby.

13. What does the Squire give his son before he leaves?
(a) A ring.
(b) A small gift.
(c) Final words of wisdom.
(d) A wad of money.

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

15. Although the boys are frightened, what do they do to Flashman?
(a) They report him to the Doctor.
(b) Flashman is tied up and dangled near the fire.
(c) They taunt him.
(d) Flashman is quickly overwhelmed by the younger, faster, more agile boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are two people with whom Tom is friends?

2. How is Tom's mother known?

3. What does Old Brooke encourage all the boys to do?

4. What happens shortly after Tom's arrival to a private school?

5. Why does Tom buy sausages to share with the other boys in their house?

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