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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 Diggs, who is studying nearby, tell Tom and East to do to Flashman?
(a) To taunt Flahman.
(b) Tackle him together.
(c) To run away.
(d) To call for the Doctor.

2. Why is East so confident in his knowledge and his worth, even though he has only been at Rugby for six months?
(a) He can see Tom is unsure of himself.
(b) By simply being at Rugby.
(c) He is older than most students in his grade.
(d) He has been enrolled in public school before.

3. Old Brooke and other boys like him leave the school. How are they described?
(a) Rude, mean and callous.
(b) Irresponsible, disrespectful and dishonorable.
(c) Calm, steady and responsible.
(d) Scary, vengeful and disobedient.

4. Why are the boys being timed?
(a) To see who can hold his breath the longest.
(b) To see how quickly they can do the times tables.
(c) To see how quickly they run a mile.
(d) To see you can swim the farthest.

5. What does Old Brooke encourage all the boys to do?
(a) To bribe other students to do their work for them.
(b) To bully the younger students.
(c) Work and play with integrity and courage and to endure bullying the same way.
(d) Annoy the teachers and not study.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the older boys drinking?

2. Why does Flashman leave the school?

3. What does Diggs realize about Flashman? Once he realizes this, he hauls him to his feet and shoves him out of the room.

4. What team gains control of the game?

5. How does Flashman end up on the floor, bleeding?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator believe young men may better themselves?

3. Where does Benjy take Tom? What happens as a result?

4. What is the narrator's opinion of the English country?

5. What types of friends does the Squire believe Tom should have?

6. How does one know that Rugby School is not near Tom's home?

7. How does Tom's first full year begin?

8. What is "the veast?"

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

10. How is Tom's life at Rugby School?

(see the answer keys)

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