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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 is a traditional, local village fair with booths of food for sale, games of chance, and contests of physical strength and courage?
(a) The celebration.
(b) The veast.
(c) The fete.
(d) The festival.

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

3. How does Tom watch the combat?
(a) With anxiety.
(b) With fear.
(c) With excitement.
(d) With a sense of boredom.

4. This novel tells the story of a rambunctious young student. Where is he located?
(a) An Australian prep school in the early 1900s.
(b) A traditional English all-boys school in the mid-1800s.
(c) A public school in the Bronx in the mi-1970s.
(d) An American all-boys school in the early 1800s.

5. What is Tom given?
(a) A young foal.
(b) A cudgel.
(c) A ride on a stagecoach.
(d) A cure for a wart on his hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tom rush into the game and attempt to defend the goal?

2. What involves two men, each carrying a wooden cudgel or club, climbing into what might be described as a kind of boxing ring, and fighting to see who can make the other's scalp bleed first?

3. For what is Tom proud to pay?

4. What happens shortly after Tom's arrival to a private school?

5. Why does Tom not pay much attention to the first church service?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "the veast?"

2. What happens later in the trip?

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

4. What lesson does Tom learn from a boy at the local private school?

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

6. How do Tom, East, and Diggs get back at Flashman?

7. What action makes Tom proud of himself?

8. How is Tom's morning on the stagecoach?

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

10. What does Old Brooke say in his speech?

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