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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 Tom's final cricket match represent?
(a) Both an ending and a beginning.
(b) Both love and hate.
(c) Sadness and happiness.
(d) Kindness and compassion.

2. What does the Doctor tell Young Brooke?
(a) To send the boys to him.
(b) To continue the fight tomorrow.
(c) To make sure the fight does not resume.
(d) To punish the boys himself.

3. What does Arthur speak about at length?
(a) His joy of seeing his friends again.
(b) His love of Rugby School.
(c) His father.
(d) His fear of, and resistance to, death.

4. What promise has Tom broken?
(a) To be friends with all the boys.
(b) To take care of Arthur.
(c) To his mother to say his prayers every night.
(d) To study.

5. What does Tom do when he sits in the same seat he sat in when he first comes to the school?
(a) He sings a hymn.
(b) He is quickly overcome by both memories and a grieving gratitude for the Doctor's life.
(c) He says a prayer for the Doctor.
(d) He talks to the Doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does East admit to Tom?

2. With whom does Tom get into a fight?

3. According to East, what do the teachers want from students, regarding learning?

4. How is Arthur, physically, at this point in the story?

5. Where does Tom travel after he leaves Rugby School?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Arthur do when he begins to fear for Tom's safety?

2. Why is the farmer on the look-out for boys from Rugby?

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

4. Why is Arthur worried about Tom's safety in the fight?

5. How does this chapter begin?

6. How does East get himself into trouble, regarding the farmer?

7. How does Tom get into a fight?

8. How does Tom try to keep his promise to Arthur?

9. What do the boys watching begin to debate?

10. Why does East not get confirmed?

(see the answer keys)

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