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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As the schoolboys and the spectators prepare for a post match party, where does Tom go?
(a) Back to a teacher's home for tea.
(b) He goes home to pray.
(c) He meets East at a private party.
(d) To a local pub with the cricket team.

3. What does the narrator find to be a necessity and an aspect of human nature?
(a) Fear.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Dishonesty.

4. How does East tell Tom to avoid the worst of Williams' blows?
(a) To run away.
(b) Use speed and agility.
(c) To hit him first.
(d) To use power and might.

5. Why does Arthur tell the School Nurse about the fight?
(a) Tom is injured.
(b) Tom is hurting Williams.
(c) He becomes fearful for Tom's safety.
(d) He becomes fearful for Williams' safety.

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

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

8. What does East get into the habit of doing?
(a) Joining Tom and Arthur in their Bible studies.
(b) Spending time with the school bullies.
(c) Reading his Bible before he goes to sleep.
(d) Cheating off Tom and Arthur's school work.

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

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

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

12. For what does the narrator ask the reader to pardon Tom?
(a) Not getting to the Chapel sooner.
(b) Being filled with more thoughts of the Doctor than God.
(c) Not being more kind to the Doctor.
(d) Ignoring his studies after leaving Rugby School.

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

14. Why does the farmer chase the boys?
(a) Boys have been stealing horses from his farm and he is suspicious of these four boys.
(b) Boys have been stealing birds from his farm and he is suspicious of these four boys.
(c) They are hose thieves.
(d) They have stolen his duck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has not gone down to watch the fight?

2. How does Tom quickly gain the upper hand?

3. What has happened by the time Tom and Arthur have left the school?

4. What piece of news does the School Nurse give Tom?

5. What does it mean to gain success, according to Tom?

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