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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what does the narrator speak at length?
(a) His frustration in the difficulty in finding decent forms of travel in his part of the country.
(b) His frustration at British people not knowing much about their home country.
(c) His happiness that Americans know so much about their history during the Colonial Period.
(d) His unhappiness in the abilities of public schools to train boys for adulthood.

2. Why does Tom rush into the game and attempt to defend the goal?
(a) He is a better goalie than the goalie on the team.
(b) The excitement becomes too much for him.
(c) He does not believe East's house is doing very well.
(d) He is bored and wants some excitement.

3. When Tom returns to regular school life after a couple of days of recovery, what does he discover?
(a) East has joined Flashman's gang.
(b) The attitude of Flashman's cronies towards him has improved.
(c) Flashman is as mean as ever.
(d) Flashman and his cronies fear him.

4. Who tells Tom stories about the wild misbehavior of the other Rugby boys he had met?
(a) The boys he meets at school.
(b) His father.
(c) The owner of the roadside inn.
(d) The coachman.

5. What does Tom endure?
(a) A difficult first day at Rugby.
(b) The blanket tossing without complaint, even though he feels frightened.
(c) An early morning role call.
(d) A boring conversation with Flashman.

6. What does Tom ask East regarding Brooke?
(a) If Brooke is good at playing football.
(b) If Brooke is the team captain.
(c) If Brooke will let Tom play in the game.
(d) If Brooke is mean.

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

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

9. Who is timing the boys?
(a) The coachman.
(b) The boys' father.
(c) The Squire.
(d) Tom.

10. Why are the boys being timed?
(a) To see how quickly they can do the times tables.
(b) To see how quickly they run a mile.
(c) To see who can hold his breath the longest.
(d) To see you can swim the farthest.

11. How is the narration different from chapters one through three?
(a) It is in first person present tense in chapter four, rather than first person past tense.
(b) It is in first in chapter four, rather than third person.
(c) It is in second person in chapter four, rather than third person.
(d) It is in third person in chapter four, rather than first person.

12. What does Tom think about this day?
(a) It is an anxious day.
(b) It is uneventful.
(c) It is the saddest day he has ever had.
(d) It is the greatest day he would ever have.

13. Tom accompanies Benjy to the farm of an Old Man who reportedly knows what?
(a) How to break a horse.
(b) The medicinal powers of herbs.
(c) How to play cudgel war.
(d) How to drive a stagecoach.

14. At one point, what does Flashman's bullying become?
(a) A farce.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Annoying.
(d) More relaxed.

15. Why does Tom buy sausages to share with the other boys in their house?
(a) He wants them to like him.
(b) He has more money than East.
(c) He loves sausages.
(d) He brags about how much money he has.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Tom and East convince other boys their age to do?

3. How does Flashman now treat Tom?

4. What happens to Benjy when he tries the potion?

5. How do Tom and East help Diggs?

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