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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tom defend Arthur from the taunts of some of the older boys?
(a) He takes Arthur away from the boys.
(b) He does not defend him but joins in the taunting.
(c) He encourages the boys to tease someone else.
(d) He flings a shoe at an older boy who taunts Arthur.

2. What has increased in Tom's life?
(a) The amount of time he spends with Arthur.
(b) The amount of school work.
(c) The time he spends with Diggs.
(d) The time he spends with East.

3. What else does Tom and the teacher debate?
(a) Whether Rugby or the London team will win.
(b) Which pub has the best beer.
(c) Whether the changes in the running of the school made by the Doctor are positive or negative.
(d) Who should be the prime minister.

4. According to East, what do the teachers want from students, regarding learning?
(a) They do not care how students learn, they just want the students to have learned.
(b) They want them to be lifelong learners.
(c) They want them to be engaged in what they are studying.
(d) They want them to memorize information that is unimportant.

5. Why is anyone who dares to taunt Tom quickly silenced?
(a) The Doctor does not tolerate taunting.
(b) He has a reputation for toughness.
(c) East has a reputation for toughness.
(d) Arthur is very protective of Tom.

6. Why does Tom more eagerly move into acceptance of his new role?
(a) He realizes that with responsibility comes status.
(b) He dislikes the Doctor.
(c) He realizes he needs a tutor.
(d) He has made new friends.

7. With whom is Rugby playing an important cricket match?
(a) A team from Paris.
(b) A team from London.
(c) A team from Brussels.
(d) A team from Dublin.

8. What is essentially East's character?
(a) The idea that he cannot stand hypocrisy.
(b) He is lazy and uneducated.
(c) He is enthusiastic and lovable.
(d) The idea that education is not important.

9. What does Arthur tell Tom about Martin?
(a) He does not trust Martin.
(b) Martin has no friends.
(c) Martin is picking on him.
(d) He is interested in becoming friends with Martin.

10. What does East admit to Tom?
(a) He has never been confirmed.
(b) He had never been to church before attending Rugby.
(c) He is not a Christian.
(d) He has never been baptized.

11. Where does Tom travel after he leaves Rugby School?
(a) To his parents' home.
(b) New York.
(c) London.
(d) Stockholm.

12. Who has not gone down to watch the fight?
(a) Young Brooke.
(b) Most of the boys in the school.
(c) Arthur.
(d) East.

13. Why do the four boys climb a tree?
(a) To catch a kestrel.
(b) To collect the eggs from the kestrel's nest.
(c) To get escape the farmer.
(d) To get a better vantage point.

14. Where has Martin gone?
(a) To a school in London.
(b) On a trip to Australia.
(c) He is on an expedition to the South Seas.
(d) Back home.

15. What gifts have Arthur and his mother left for Tom?
(a) New school clothes.
(b) A football and a Bible.
(c) A journal and new school books.
(d) A new fishing rod and a Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the entire town support Arthur's mother?

2. Of whom does Tom want to catch a glimpse?

3. What does Tom do after he writes his mother a letter?

4. What does Tom discover about the Doctor?

5. What do the boys wonder about the move?

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