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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Flashman end up on the floor, bleeding?
(a) Tom uses some of the wrestling moves he had learned.
(b) He trips on his shoelace.
(c) East kicks him to the ground.
(d) Tom uses boxing moves he had learned.

2. What does Flashman frequently do to Diggs?
(a) Gives his own belongings to Diggs.
(b) Steals his belongings and auctions them off to the other boys.
(c) Beat him.
(d) Verbally abuse him.

3. What does Flashman do when he discovers Tom and East by the fire together?
(a) He tries to give them orders.
(b) He runs away.
(c) He physically abuses them.
(d) He apologizes.

4. How do Tom and East help Diggs?
(a) The save him from Flashman's beatings.
(b) They yells obscenities at Flashman.
(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.

5. When are Tom, East, and Diggs all embarrassed?
(a) Flashman auctions off their belongings.
(b) They miss their classes.
(c) Flashman abuses them.
(d) Diggs expresses his gratitude.

6. What team gains control of the game?
(a) The Paris academy.
(b) East's house.
(c) West's house.
(d) The school from London.

7. Old Brooke and other boys like him leave the school. How are they described?
(a) Irresponsible, disrespectful and dishonorable.
(b) Rude, mean and callous.
(c) Scary, vengeful and disobedient.
(d) Calm, steady and responsible.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Old Brooke do at the end of the singing?
(a) He reprimands the younger boys.
(b) He argues with East.
(c) He stands up and leaves.
(d) He stands up and gives a speech.

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

14. Who does the narrator admire?
(a) The characters of boys.
(b) Those who take advantage of what they have at home.
(c) People who travel all over the world.
(d) The British citizens.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Tom and East go into the village?

2. Where are the students headed after roll call?

3. What does Tom's landowning family rarely, if ever, do?

4. Who teaches Tom how to wrestle?

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

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