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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 is bored and wants some excitement.
(d) He does not believe East's house is doing very well.

2. How do Tom and East help Diggs?
(a) They yells obscenities at Flashman.
(b) The save him from Flashman's beatings.
(c) They steal Diggs' personal belongings and auction them off to the other boys.
(d) They use their saved pocket money to buy back some of Diggs' things and return them to him.

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

4. How is Tom's mother known?
(a) Madam Brown.
(b) Miss Brown.
(c) Rachel Brown.
(d) Mrs. Brown.

5. What is Tom's reaction to his father's speech?
(a) Irritated.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Near-tearful.
(d) Annoyed.

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

7. Who is Benjy?
(a) Tom's cousin.
(b) One of the two young farm hands.
(c) Tom's uncle.
(d) One of the two elderly farm hands.

8. What leads to Tom panicking and starting for the door to fetch the nurse?
(a) Flashman has attacked East.
(b) Flashman has jumped out the window.
(c) Flashman is trying to commit suicide.
(d) Flashman pretends to be unconscious.

9. How does Tom watch the combat?
(a) With excitement.
(b) With anxiety.
(c) With a sense of boredom.
(d) With fear.

10. Why is East so confident in his knowledge and his worth, even though he has only been at Rugby for six months?
(a) He has been enrolled in public school before.
(b) He can see Tom is unsure of himself.
(c) By simply being at Rugby.
(d) He is older than most students in his grade.

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 second person in chapter four, rather than third person.
(c) It is in first in chapter four, rather than third person.
(d) It is in third person in chapter four, rather than first person.

12. Why does Flashman leave the school?
(a) He fails all of his classes.
(b) He has beaten up too many students.
(c) He is caught getting publicly drunk.
(d) He curses at a teacher.

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

14. 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 homesick and moves back home.
(c) He is expelled for fighting.
(d) He becomes friends with East.

15. How does Tom feel about helping Diggs?
(a) He is proud of himself for having done the right thing.
(b) He feels obligated to help him.
(c) He wishes he did not have to help him.
(d) He regrets helping Diggs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What narrative form is initially used in this chapter?

2. Flashman spreads rumors that do what to the reputations of Tom and East?

3. Why are the boys being timed?

4. Who is timing the boys?

5. Who takes control of the school when Old Brooke and other older boys leave?

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