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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom do after he receives the news of the Doctor's death?
(a) He is in denial and ignores the news.
(b) He contacts East, Martin, and Arthur.
(c) He breaks off his holiday and travels hurriedly to Rugby.
(d) He tells his wife the news.

2. Who dies and is buried after a funeral service and sermon conducted by the Doctor?
(a) One of the first students to catch the fever.
(b) Arthur.
(c) Tom.
(d) The Nurse.

3. What does Young Brooke have Tom and Williams do?
(a) Finish the fight.
(b) Wear dunce caps in the corner.
(c) Shake hands.
(d) Move out.

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

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

6. What is Tom determined to avoid?
(a) Cheating.
(b) Doing school work.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Arguing.

7. Arthur's mother had been born into high society. How does she feel about the quiet rural life she shared with her husband?
(a) She misses the balls.
(b) She is unhappy.
(c) She is happy.
(d) She would like to live in the city.

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

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

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

11. What piece of news does the School Nurse give Tom?
(a) He will be living in different quarters.
(b) He has a severe fever.
(c) He has been assigned the large study he wants.
(d) He is expelled from Rugby.

12. How is Arthur, physically, at this point in the story?
(a) He is weaker than when he first arrived.
(b) He is stronger than Tom.
(c) He becomes physically sturdier and more active.
(d) He is the same.

13. What does East do for Tom during the fight?
(a) He helps fight Williams.
(b) He acts as his trainer and gives him advice.
(c) He encourages him to back down.
(d) He tells him to land the first punches.

14. Who says that as long as it is done properly it is perfectly legal?
(a) Young Brooke.
(b) The Doctor.
(c) Martin.
(d) East.

15. Why does Arthur tell the School Nurse about the fight?
(a) He becomes fearful for Tom's safety.
(b) Tom is injured.
(c) He becomes fearful for Williams' safety.
(d) Tom is hurting Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tom more eagerly move into acceptance of his new role?

2. According to the narrator, how must a young man fight?

3. How do the two fighters treat one another, once Young Brooke steps in?

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

5. What do East and other boys think about Tom's relationship with Arthur?

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