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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Young Brooke remain?
(a) He has a very good relationship with the Doctor.
(b) He is sacrificing himself for the other boys.
(c) He is trying to distract the School Nurse.
(d) He is injured and cannot move.

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

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

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

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

6. Why do the four boys climb a tree?
(a) To collect the eggs from the kestrel's nest.
(b) To get escape the farmer.
(c) To get a better vantage point.
(d) To catch a kestrel.

7. 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 meets East at a private party.
(c) To a local pub with the cricket team.
(d) He goes home to pray.

8. What does Tom discover about the Doctor?
(a) He has been buried in the Chapel.
(b) He did not die after all.
(c) He is buried at sea.
(d) He is cremated.

9. What does the narrator suggest all boys reading the book should learn?
(a) To break up fights.
(b) To wrestle.
(c) To box.
(d) To be convincing.

10. According to the narrator, how must a young man fight?
(a) Out spite and hatred.
(b) With integrity and moral courage.
(c) With his voice, not his fists.
(d) Carefully and cautiously.

11. When does Arthur experience a spiritual vision?
(a) When his fever is most intense.
(b) During his sleep.
(c) In class.
(d) During a church service.

12. Where has Martin gone?
(a) He is on an expedition to the South Seas.
(b) On a trip to Australia.
(c) To a school in London.
(d) Back home.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the farmer chase the boys?

2. What does Tom debate with one of the teachers?

3. What move gets questioned by the boys watching?

4. What is the novel's central theme?

5. What gifts have Arthur and his mother left for Tom?

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