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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do both Tom and East feel?
(a) Excited and full of energy.
(b) They are both stiff and in pain after both the game and the tossing.
(c) Tired.
(d) Bored.

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

3. What does the Doctor's sermon encourage?
(a) The boys to live life well, rather than let it pass by them.
(b) To follow all his instructions.
(c) The boys to pray every night.
(d) The boys to live for their education here at Rugby.

4. What does Diggs realize about Flashman? Once he realizes this, he hauls him to his feet and shoves him out of the room.
(a) Flashman is unconsious.
(b) Flashman is trying to kill Tom.
(c) Flashman has called for backup.
(d) Flashman is only faking.

5. What does Tom's reaction to his father's speech reveal?
(a) The very formal and distant relationship he and his father have.
(b) The emotional and intellectual respect with which he regards his father.
(c) How much he and his father disagree.
(d) How much he dislikes his father.

6. What happens during an oral examination from the Doctor?
(a) Tom answers all the questions correctly.
(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 is punished for answering all the questions incorrectly.

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

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

9. What friendship does Tom's father encourage?
(a) His friendships with the servants in the house.
(b) His friendships with those of other cultures.
(c) His friendship with those in his own social class.
(d) His friendship with the sons of the village laborers.

10. Where are the students headed after roll call?
(a) A meeting.
(b) The football pitch.
(c) To a movie.
(d) Their dormatories.

11. Upon what does Tom reflect?
(a) On his life before leaving for school.
(b) How he's never had a more pleasant day.
(c) On his old school.
(d) How much he misses his family.

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

13. What is a traditional, local village fair with booths of food for sale, games of chance, and contests of physical strength and courage?
(a) The veast.
(b) The festival.
(c) The celebration.
(d) The fete.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes a teacher and several others to change their view of Tom from respect to wariness?

2. What happens to Tom and East's reputations?

3. What happens to Tom when East runs to get Diggs?

4. What is the tone of the Squire's words to his son?

5. What does Flashman do when he discovers Tom and East by the fire together?

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