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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 has increased in Tom's life?
(a) The amount of time he spends with Arthur.
(b) The time he spends with Diggs.
(c) The amount of school work.
(d) The time he spends with East.

2. Why does Tom more eagerly move into acceptance of his new role?
(a) He realizes he needs a tutor.
(b) He dislikes the Doctor.
(c) He realizes that with responsibility comes status.
(d) He has made new friends.

3. According to East, what do the teachers want from students, regarding learning?
(a) They do not care how students learn, they just want the students to have learned.
(b) They want them to memorize information that is unimportant.
(c) They want them to be engaged in what they are studying.
(d) They want them to be lifelong learners.

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

5. What else does Tom and the teacher debate?
(a) Whether the changes in the running of the school made by the Doctor are positive or negative.
(b) Who should be the prime minister.
(c) Whether Rugby or the London team will win.
(d) Which pub has the best beer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises and startles Tom?

2. How is the fight conducted?

3. According to the narrator, how must a young man fight?

4. What do East and other boys think about Tom's relationship with Arthur?

5. What does East get into the habit of doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tom get into a fight?

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

3. Why is Arthur crying in Tom's study?

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

5. How well does Tom do in the fight?

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

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

8. How does Tom feel about Arthur wanting to be friends with Martin?

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

10. What does East confess?

(see the answer keys)

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