View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What has increased in Tom's life?
(a) The amount of time he spends with Arthur.
(b) The time he spends with Diggs.
(c) The amount of school work.
(d) The time he spends with East.

3. Arthur's mother had been born into high society. How does she feel about the quiet rural life she shared with her husband?
(a) She would like to live in the city.
(b) She is unhappy.
(c) She is happy.
(d) She misses the balls.

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

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

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

7. Why does East tell Tom to wear Williams out?
(a) So Williams will give in.
(b) So his own attacks have more effect.
(c) So his own attacks have less effect.
(d) So Williams will end the fight.

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

9. What does Tom discover that makes him so upset?
(a) East, Martin, and Arthur are leaving him out of their adventures.
(b) Martin and Arthur have been out hunting for birds' eggs without him.
(c) Martin has verbally abused Arthur.
(d) Martin and Arthur are spreading rumors about him.

10. What promise has Tom broken?
(a) To be friends with all the boys.
(b) To take care of Arthur.
(c) To study.
(d) To his mother to say his prayers every night.

11. 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.

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

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

14. Why does Arthur not play with other boys but spends time studying the Bible and discussing philosophy with his father?
(a) He is always sickly.
(b) He does not like sports.
(c) He does not have any friends.
(d) He is in a wheelchair.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A few weeks before Arthur was to be sent to Rugby, what happens to his father and mother?

2. For what does the narrator ask the reader to pardon Tom?

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

4. What else does the School Nurse tell Tom?

5. All change brought about by the passing of time ends in what same result?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 672 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample