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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom's reaction to his father's speech reveal?
(a) How much he and his father disagree.
(b) The very formal and distant relationship he and his father have.
(c) How much he dislikes his father.
(d) The emotional and intellectual respect with which he regards his father.

2. Why do the boys get together in the common room?
(a) To discuss the football match.
(b) To watch television.
(c) To pray.
(d) To sing a series of traditional songs.

3. How is Benjy's search for a cure for his rheumatism?
(a) It is successful.
(b) He meets with many successful remedies.
(c) He meets only with a half-heartedly offered potion.
(d) He finds absolutely no possible remedy.

4. What do Tom and East convince other boys their age to do?
(a) Refuse to obey Flashman's orders.
(b) Listen to Flahsman's orders.
(c) Break into the Doctor's office.
(d) Steal from the school.

5. Who tells Tom stories about the wild misbehavior of the other Rugby boys he had met?
(a) The boys he meets at school.
(b) The coachman.
(c) His father.
(d) The owner of the roadside inn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the students headed after roll call?

2. What is a traditional, local village fair with booths of food for sale, games of chance, and contests of physical strength and courage?

3. What has happens to East during the game?

4. How does the narrative voice shift?

5. How is the meal in the common room and roll call?

Short Essay Questions

1. What trouble does Tom get into? How is he punished?

2. How do Tom and East rebel against Flashman's treatment of them?

3. What is "the veast?"

4. How does Tom take East's warning about Flashman?

5. What two incidents teach Tom the foolishness of this poor attitude?

6. What key themes appear in this chapter?

7. What happens later in the trip?

8. What is different about the way Tom travels to school from how one travels to school in the twenty-first century?

9. Why does Tom's respect for the Doctor increase?

10. How does Flashman and his cronies treat Tom once he is healed from the last incident?

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