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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom discover that makes him so upset?
(a) Martin and Arthur have been out hunting for birds' eggs without him.
(b) Martin and Arthur are spreading rumors about him.
(c) Martin has verbally abused Arthur.
(d) East, Martin, and Arthur are leaving him out of their adventures.

2. With whom does Tom get into a fight?
(a) Martin.
(b) An older boy named Williams.
(c) East.
(d) The Doctor.

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

4. How does Tom fight for the first couple of rounds?
(a) He dodges Williams' blows.
(b) He runs around Williams.
(c) He merely rushes into combat, swinging wildly.
(d) He hides in the corner.

5. What do East and other boys think about Tom's relationship with Arthur?
(a) It is a healthy relationship.
(b) Tom should spend more time with Arthur.
(c) It is a strange relationship.
(d) Tom should let Arthur find his own way.

6. 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 sings a hymn.
(c) He says a prayer for the Doctor.
(d) He is quickly overcome by both memories and a grieving gratitude for the Doctor's life.

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

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

9. What does Arthur speak about at length?
(a) His joy of seeing his friends again.
(b) His love of Rugby School.
(c) His fear of, and resistance to, death.
(d) His father.

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

11. Who is Arthur's father?
(a) An abusive alcoholic.
(b) A respected and kind schoolmaster.
(c) A respected, gentle, and wise minister.
(d) A tough businessman.

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

13. What else does the School Nurse tell Tom?
(a) He may no longer be friends with East.
(b) He needs to speak with the Doctor.
(c) He will be mentored by a boy named Arthur.
(d) He will be mentoring a timid little boy named Arthur.

14. A few weeks before Arthur was to be sent to Rugby, what happens to his father and mother?
(a) They adopt another child.
(b) They move to London.
(c) They are murdered in a robbery that went bad.
(d) Both become ill with typhus.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Young Brooke have Tom and Williams do?

3. What is the novel's central theme?

4. What do the other boys at the school do because they want to gain the favor of the Doctor?

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

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