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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Flashman spreads rumors that do what to the reputations of Tom and East?
(a) Make them heroes.
(b) Instill fear in all the other boys.
(c) Blacken their reputations even more.
(d) Improve them.

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

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

7. Who are two people with whom Tom is friends?
(a) Two elderly farm hands.
(b) Two thieves who hide out in town.
(c) Two wealthy boys from the next property over.
(d) Two young farm hands.

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

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

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

11. What is Tom's reaction to his father's speech?
(a) Annoyed.
(b) Near-tearful.
(c) Irritated.
(d) Fearful.

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

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

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

15. What does East warn Tom?
(a) Flashman and some of the older boys will come looking for them to play the game of tossing them in a blanket.
(b) The curriculum at Rugby is very difficult.
(c) Flashman will want Tom as a friend.
(d) School starts early in the morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two students doing to the coach?

2. Why does Tom rush into the game and attempt to defend the goal?

3. Who teaches Tom how to wrestle?

4. How does Tom feel about helping Diggs?

5. Who wakes Tom at the roadside inn?

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