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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 narrative form is initially used in this chapter?
(a) First person past tense.
(b) First person present tense.
(c) Second person.
(d) Third person.

2. What are the excellent qualities of the Brown family?
(a) Kindness, love, and modesty.
(b) Wealth, prosperity, and strength.
(c) Strength, courage, and determination.
(d) Faith, hope, and charity.

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

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

5. Why is Tom staying at the roadside inn?
(a) He waits for a coach.
(b) He is traveling to visit relatives.
(c) He is on his way to visit London.
(d) He is headed home from his first school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is staying with Tom at the roadside inn?

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 team gains control of the game?

4. 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?

5. When Tom returns to regular school life after a couple of days of recovery, what does he discover?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "the veast?"

2. What action makes Tom proud of himself?

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

4. What does Old Brooke say in his speech?

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

6. What happens after the blanket tossing?

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

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

9. What takes place during the football game?

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

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