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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. Who takes control of the school when Old Brooke and other older boys leave?
(a) Tom and his friends.
(b) More responsible boys, such as Flashman.
(c) Bullies like Flashman and his crowd of friends.
(d) The Doctor and the other teachers.

2. What does East tell Tom?
(a) He has arrived on a good day.
(b) To leave Rugby.
(c) The school is boring.
(d) Do not run onto the soccer pitch.

3. What does Tom's landowning family rarely, if ever, do?
(a) Stay at home.
(b) Sell property to other families.
(c) Leave London.
(d) Leave the county in which Tom is born.

4. How do Tom and East help Diggs?
(a) The save him from Flashman's beatings.
(b) They steal Diggs' personal belongings and auction them off to the other boys.
(c) They use their saved pocket money to buy back some of Diggs' things and return them to him.
(d) They yells obscenities at Flashman.

5. How is Tom's mother known?
(a) Rachel Brown.
(b) Madam Brown.
(c) Mrs. Brown.
(d) Miss Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Why does Flashman leave the school?

3. How does Tom feel about helping Diggs?

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

5. What does East warn Tom?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens later in the trip?

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

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

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

6. What takes place during the football game?

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

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

9. What types of friends does the Squire believe Tom should have?

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

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