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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Tom when East runs to get Diggs?
(a) He beats up Flashman.
(b) His clothes begin to burn, and he falls unconscious.
(c) He is burned in the fire.
(d) He runs back to his dormatory.

4. What are the older boys drinking?
(a) Water.
(b) Soda.
(c) Mild beer.
(d) Wine.

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

6. How does Tom feel about the disappearance of such games and competitions from the culture?
(a) He has no feelings on the subject.
(b) He is glad they no longer exist.
(c) He is sad and disappointed.
(d) He feels safer now that they have disappeared from the culture.

7. Who is staying with Tom at the roadside inn?
(a) His mother.
(b) His brother.
(c) His father.
(d) His uncle.

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

9. Who cares for Tom?
(a) His mother.
(b) A local girl named Charity.
(c) His cousin, Sara.
(d) His father.

10. Why are Tom and East sent up to see the Doctor to take their punishment?
(a) They are laughing during his sermon.
(b) They arrive late to school after a cross-country chase.
(c) They arrive late to their first class in the morning.
(d) They refuse to turn in their homework.

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

12. 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 celebration.
(b) The fete.
(c) The festival.
(d) The veast.

13. Who wakes Tom at the roadside inn?
(a) His father.
(b) The coachman.
(c) A servant.
(d) East.

14. What happens to Benjy when he tries the potion?
(a) He breaks out in hives.
(b) He become violently ill.
(c) He becomes less and less able to move.
(d) He is healed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the relationship between Squire Brown and Tom?

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

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

4. Why does Flashman leave the school?

5. What does the Doctor's sermon encourage?

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