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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 piece of news does the School Nurse give Tom?
(a) He has a severe fever.
(b) He has been assigned the large study he wants.
(c) He is expelled from Rugby.
(d) He will be living in different quarters.

2. What does East still believe is not a bad thing?
(a) Using other people's work.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Sleeping through classes.

3. What has happened by the time Tom and Arthur have left the school?
(a) The boys all pray in the Chapel.
(b) Most of the boys kneel and pray at bedtime.
(c) The bullying has ended.
(d) They are now the bullies.

4. Why does the farmer chase the boys?
(a) Boys have been stealing horses from his farm and he is suspicious of these four boys.
(b) They are hose thieves.
(c) Boys have been stealing birds from his farm and he is suspicious of these four boys.
(d) They have stolen his duck.

5. Why does the entire town support Arthur's mother?
(a) She is beginning her own business.
(b) Her husband is abusive.
(c) She is ill and unable to care for her family.
(d) She is such a gracious and loving woman who is newly widowed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the fight conducted?

2. What surprises and startles Tom?

3. What is Arthur's fondest wish?

4. What does Tom debate with one of the teachers?

5. Tom and East return to Rugby, after a holiday, full of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does East confess?

2. How does Tom react when we realizes he has broken the promise he had made to his mother?

3. The narrator asks the reader to pardon Tom for being filled with more thoughts of the Doctor than of God. What is his explanation for Tom's behavior?

4. How well does Tom do in the fight?

5. What takes place between Young Brooke and the Doctor, after the boys have quickly dispersed?

6. What does Williams have against Arthur?

7. What does Tom immediately understand about his relationship with Arthur, after speaking with a teacher?

8. What does Tom think of Arthur's mother?

9. What does Tom do when he finds out about the Doctor's death?

10. Two years have passed. How are Arthur, Martin, East, and Tom doing?

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