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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 the Doctor's sermon encourage?
(a) The boys to pray every night.
(b) The boys to live life well, rather than let it pass by them.
(c) To follow all his instructions.
(d) The boys to live for their education here at Rugby.

2. What happens to Tom when East runs to get Diggs?
(a) His clothes begin to burn, and he falls unconscious.
(b) He runs back to his dormatory.
(c) He is burned in the fire.
(d) He beats up Flashman.

3. Why does Flashman leave the school?
(a) He has beaten up too many students.
(b) He is caught getting publicly drunk.
(c) He curses at a teacher.
(d) He fails all of his classes.

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

5. Who does Tom's mother take in, train, and pass on to other jobs?
(a) Young women.
(b) Young men.
(c) Horses.
(d) Slave girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what does Tom reflect?

2. For what is Tom proud to pay?

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

4. Who wakes Tom at the roadside inn?

5. Why is Tom staying at the roadside inn?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens later in the trip?

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

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

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

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

7. What does Old Brooke say in his speech?

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

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

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

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