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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. When does Tom arrive at his destination?
(a) After breakfast.
(b) During teatime.
(c) Suppertime.
(d) In the winter.

2. What causes a teacher and several others to change their view of Tom from respect to wariness?
(a) Playing in the teacher's desk,
(b) Stealing from other students.
(c) Bullying young students.
(d) Arguing with the teachers.

3. What happens to Benjy when he tries the potion?
(a) He becomes less and less able to move.
(b) He breaks out in hives.
(c) He become violently ill.
(d) He is healed.

4. Where are the students headed after roll call?
(a) A meeting.
(b) The football pitch.
(c) To a movie.
(d) Their dormatories.

5. Tom starts his first full year in the company of East and several other young students who seem more interested in what than in concentrating on their lessons?
(a) Girls and their own appearances.
(b) Playing games and taunting their teachers.
(c) Staying up late and sleeping in.
(d) Football and other sports.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Benjy's search for a cure for his rheumatism?

2. Why is Tom so proud?

3. Even though the Doctor, the head of their house, has strong new ideas that some might think go against the school's traditions, what should the boys do?

4. Why are Tom and East sent up to see the Doctor to take their punishment?

5. When are Tom, East, and Diggs all embarrassed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Tom's overall feel of the day?

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

3. How does Tom come to attend Rugby?

4. Why does Tom's respect for the Doctor increase?

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

6. What happens later in the evening?

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

8. What does Old Brooke say in his speech?

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

10. What happens after the blanket tossing?

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