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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All change brought about by the passing of time ends in what same result?
(a) Being brought to heaven.
(b) Life.
(c) Death.
(d) Disaster.

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

3. What does it mean to gain success, according to Tom?
(a) Approval from the Doctor.
(b) To be the best in school.
(c) To have a large amount of wealth.
(d) To win a game of cricket.

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

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

6. What does Tom do after he writes his mother a letter?
(a) He kneels to say his prayers.
(b) He goes to sleep.
(c) He goes to the Chapel to pray.
(d) He writes his father a letter.

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

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

9. How is the fight conducted?
(a) With the formality of a professional boxing match.
(b) As a brawl in the dormatories.
(c) Quick and without a crowd.
(d) Very informally in the school yard.

10. What surprises and startles Tom?
(a) Arthur's appearance.
(b) East's cough.
(c) Arthur's fever.
(d) The Doctor's orders.

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

12. Of what does Young Brooke convince the Doctor?
(a) There was no fight.
(b) The fight is dangerous and the boys should be punished.
(c) The boys are only playing.
(d) The fight was not necessarily a bad thing,

13. Of whom does Tom want to catch a glimpse?
(a) The girls at the convent school.
(b) The farmer's daughter.
(c) East's sister.
(d) Arthur's beautiful mother.

14. Why does the entire town support Arthur's mother?
(a) She is such a gracious and loving woman who is newly widowed.
(b) Her husband is abusive.
(c) She is beginning her own business.
(d) She is ill and unable to care for her family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the four boys climb a tree?

2. Arthur's mother had been born into high society. How does she feel about the quiet rural life she shared with her husband?

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

4. Why does Young Brooke remain?

5. What happens when the teacher realizes he has forgotten his keys?

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