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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. How does the narrative voice shift?
(a) From third person to first person.
(b) From first person present tense to first person past tense.
(c) From first person to third person.
(d) From first person past tense to first person present tense.

2. What team gains control of the game?
(a) East's house.
(b) The school from London.
(c) West's house.
(d) The Paris academy.

3. 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 call for the Doctor.
(d) To run away.

4. 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 fete.
(b) The festival.
(c) The celebration.
(d) The veast.

5. What are the two students doing to the coach?
(a) Trying to stop it.
(b) Teasing the horses pulling it.
(c) Throwing rocks at it.
(d) Running alongside it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Old Brooke encourage all the boys to do?

2. Why is Tom so proud?

3. Why do the boys get together in the common room?

4. Who are two people with whom Tom is friends?

5. Who tells Tom stories about the wild misbehavior of the other Rugby boys he had met?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the two church services for Tom?

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

3. What happens after the blanket tossing?

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

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

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

7. How does Tom react to his father's words?

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

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

10. Describe the Squire's final words to his son.

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