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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 leaves.
(b) He reprimands the younger boys.
(c) He argues with East.
(d) He stands up and gives a speech.

2. 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.

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

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

5. Who does Tom's mother take in, train, and pass on to other jobs?
(a) Young women.
(b) Slave girls.
(c) Horses.
(d) Young men.

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

7. 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.

8. What does Old Brooke encourage all the boys to do?
(a) Annoy the teachers and not study.
(b) To bribe other students to do their work for them.
(c) Work and play with integrity and courage and to endure bullying the same way.
(d) To bully the younger students.

9. Why does Tom not pay much attention to the first church service?
(a) He is too curious about the church and his fellow students.
(b) The sermon is really boring.
(c) He is too busy talking to East.
(d) He is absorbed at looking at al the beautiful architectural details on the church.

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

11. What narrative form is initially used in this chapter?
(a) First person present tense.
(b) Third person.
(c) Second person.
(d) First person past tense.

12. What has happens to East during the game?
(a) He leaves the game because of too many penalties.
(b) He falls asleep.
(c) He runs into Old Brooke.
(d) He hurts his foot.

13. Even though the Doctor, the head of their house, has strong new ideas that some might think go against the school's traditions, what should the boys do?
(a) Ignore him.
(b) Try to have him replaced.
(c) Tease him.
(d) Respect him.

14. How is Benjy's search for a cure for his rheumatism?
(a) He finds absolutely no possible remedy.
(b) It is successful.
(c) He meets with many successful remedies.
(d) He meets only with a half-heartedly offered potion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At one point, what does Flashman's bullying become?

2. What does East tell Tom?

3. Who is staying with Tom at the roadside inn?

4. At what does the narrator speak at length?

5. Why does Flashman leave the school?

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