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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Tom debate with one of the teachers?
(a) Whether or not Tom cheated on a test.
(b) Whether Tom's studies in Greek are more or less useful in life than his increasing skills at cricket.
(c) Whether Tom should leave Rugby or become a teacher.
(d) Whether or not Tom should take a cricket scholarship to Oxford.

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

6. How does Tom defend Arthur from the taunts of some of the older boys?
(a) He flings a shoe at an older boy who taunts Arthur.
(b) He does not defend him but joins in the taunting.
(c) He encourages the boys to tease someone else.
(d) He takes Arthur away from the boys.

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

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

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

10. Why do the boys, including Tom and Williams, quickly disperse?
(a) The police have been called.
(b) The School Nurse has arrived.
(c) The fight has ended.
(d) So as not to get caught by the Doctor.

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

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

13. What does Tom do after he receives the news of the Doctor's death?
(a) He breaks off his holiday and travels hurriedly to Rugby.
(b) He is in denial and ignores the news.
(c) He contacts East, Martin, and Arthur.
(d) He tells his wife the news.

14. What move gets questioned by the boys watching?
(a) An upper cut to the jaw.
(b) The wrestling throw Tom learned in Chapter 3.
(c) A choke hold.
(d) A wrestling pin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Arthur not play with other boys but spends time studying the Bible and discussing philosophy with his father?

2. How do the two fighters treat one another, once Young Brooke steps in?

3. Where is Tom when he receives news of the Doctor's death?

4. Who says that as long as it is done properly it is perfectly legal?

5. What do the boys wonder about the move?

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