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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to East, what do the teachers want from students, regarding learning?
(a) They want them to be lifelong learners.
(b) They want them to memorize information that is unimportant.
(c) They want them to be engaged in what they are studying.
(d) They do not care how students learn, they just want the students to have learned.

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

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

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

6. Why does Tom decide to send Arthur into the game?
(a) He has been begging to be put in the game, and Tom has a hard time saying no to Arthur.
(b) Several other players are injured, so Tom had no choice but to put in Arthur.
(c) He is the best player on the team.
(d) Out of respect for Arthur's commitment to the game and for all Arthur has done for him.

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

8. Where does Tom travel after he leaves Rugby School?
(a) London.
(b) New York.
(c) Stockholm.
(d) To his parents' home.

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

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 fishing trip to Scotland.
(c) Their expedition in search of the kestrel's nest.
(d) A trip to London.

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

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

13. What does Tom's final cricket match represent?
(a) Sadness and happiness.
(b) Kindness and compassion.
(c) Both an ending and a beginning.
(d) Both love and hate.

14. Tom and East return to Rugby, after a holiday, full of what?
(a) Excitement and plans for the new term.
(b) Fear and anxiety.
(c) Regret and despair.
(d) Anxiousness and stress.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What rumor is spreading?

2. What is essentially East's character?

3. What does Tom discover about the Doctor?

4. Why do the boys, including Tom and Williams, quickly disperse?

5. How is Arthur, physically, at this point in the story?

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