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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is there a shift?
(a) The author is trying to make the story more exciting.
(b) The author is trying to confuse the reader.
(c) The author intends to give the reader a more immediate sense of Tom's experience.
(d) The author is being creative.

2. 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) Tease him.
(c) Try to have him replaced.
(d) Respect him.

3. What causes a teacher and several others to change their view of Tom from respect to wariness?
(a) Playing in the teacher's desk,
(b) Bullying young students.
(c) Stealing from other students.
(d) Arguing with the teachers.

4. What does Tom's landowning family rarely, if ever, do?
(a) Leave the county in which Tom is born.
(b) Sell property to other families.
(c) Stay at home.
(d) Leave London.

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What happens to Tom and East's reputations?
(a) The other boys do not take the rumors seriously, so the reputations do not last.
(b) Their blackened reputations linger long after Flashman leaves.
(c) Tom and East ignore them.
(d) Their heroic reputations last for the rest of the school year.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Flashman now treat Tom?

2. Why is Tom so proud?

3. What happens to Benjy when he tries the potion?

4. Where are the students headed after roll call?

5. What does Old Brooke do at the end of the singing?

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