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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Tom get into a fight?
(a) Williams threatens to beat Arthur.
(b) He taunts Williams.
(c) Williams steals something from him.
(d) Williams threatens him.

4. When does Tom decide he is acting foolish?
(a) When cheating on a test did not help him pass it.
(b) He realizes they did not spread the rumors.
(c) They allow him to join them.
(d) He sees how excited and happy Arthur has become.

5. What does East still believe is not a bad thing?
(a) Sleeping through classes.
(b) Stealing.
(c) Using other people's work.
(d) Fighting.

6. What is Arthur's fondest wish?
(a) To graduate.
(b) To have his father back.
(c) To become a doctor.
(d) To have his mother and Tom in the same room.

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

8. What has happened by the time Tom and Arthur have left the school?
(a) They are now the bullies.
(b) The boys all pray in the Chapel.
(c) Most of the boys kneel and pray at bedtime.
(d) The bullying has ended.

9. What does Tom do when he sits in the same seat he sat in when he first comes to the school?
(a) He talks to the Doctor.
(b) He is quickly overcome by both memories and a grieving gratitude for the Doctor's life.
(c) He says a prayer for the Doctor.
(d) He sings a hymn.

10. From the perspective of the narrator, what is one long fight or series of fights?
(a) Parenthood.
(b) Friendships.
(c) Life.
(d) School.

11. Where is Tom when he receives news of the Doctor's death?
(a) On a boat in the South Seas.
(b) He is on a fishing trip in Scotland.
(c) In his home town.
(d) In America.

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

13. What do the boys wonder about the move?
(a) Whether or not it is legal.
(b) How to do it.
(c) Whether or not it is safe.
(d) Where Tom learned the move.

14. How do the two fighters treat one another, once Young Brooke steps in?
(a) With respect.
(b) They detest one another.
(c) Worse than before.
(d) No better than before.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Young Brooke remain?

2. Where has Martin gone?

3. Of what does Young Brooke convince the Doctor?

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

5. Why does Arthur not play with other boys but spends time studying the Bible and discussing philosophy with his father?

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