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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, how must a young man fight?
(a) With his voice, not his fists.
(b) Out spite and hatred.
(c) With integrity and moral courage.
(d) Carefully and cautiously.

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

3. When does Arthur experience a spiritual vision?
(a) During his sleep.
(b) When his fever is most intense.
(c) In class.
(d) During a church service.

4. Who is the captain of the team?
(a) Young Brooke.
(b) Arthur.
(c) Martin.
(d) Tom.

5. What is the novel's central theme?
(a) One learns important lessons when away at school.
(b) As an adult, one must be independent.
(c) The importance of human relationships.
(d) Fighting is an innate part of humanity.

6. What happens to Arthur?
(a) He catches the fever and is quarantined.
(b) He leaves school.
(c) He catches influenza.
(d) He saves Tom.

7. What do the other boys at the school do because they want to gain the favor of the Doctor?
(a) Attend church services.
(b) Get confirmed.
(c) Bring him gifts.
(d) Behave in class.

8. What does the Doctor tell Young Brooke?
(a) To continue the fight tomorrow.
(b) To punish the boys himself.
(c) To send the boys to him.
(d) To make sure the fight does not resume.

9. What rumor is spreading?
(a) Influenza.
(b) A potentially dangerous fever has started to spread through the school.
(c) That Williams and Tom will fight again.
(d) A rash.

10. Later, on what do Tom, Martin, Arthur, and East set off?
(a) An expeditition to steal a bird from a nearby farm.
(b) A trip to London.
(c) Their expedition in search of the kestrel's nest.
(d) A fishing trip to Scotland.

11. What does Tom debate with one of the teachers?
(a) Whether Tom should leave Rugby or become a teacher.
(b) Whether or not Tom should take a cricket scholarship to Oxford.
(c) Whether Tom's studies in Greek are more or less useful in life than his increasing skills at cricket.
(d) Whether or not Tom cheated on a test.

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

13. 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 flings a shoe at an older boy who taunts Arthur.
(d) He encourages the boys to tease someone else.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom discover that makes him so upset?

2. From the perspective of the narrator, what is one long fight or series of fights?

3. What does East do for Tom during the fight?

4. What does Tom do when he sits in the same seat he sat in when he first comes to the school?

5. Why is Arthur in Tom's office weeping as he reads his Bible?

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