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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 5, 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what does the narrator speak at length?
(a) His unhappiness in the abilities of public schools to train boys for adulthood.
(b) His frustration at British people not knowing much about their home country.
(c) His happiness that Americans know so much about their history during the Colonial Period.
(d) His frustration in the difficulty in finding decent forms of travel in his part of the country.

2. In what are his words grounded?
(a) Hope and love.
(b) Envy and jealously
(c) Genuine affection and concern.
(d) Sadness and fear.

3. Who does Tom's mother take in, train, and pass on to other jobs?
(a) Slave girls.
(b) Young women.
(c) Young men.
(d) Horses.

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

5. What does Tom endure?
(a) An early morning role call.
(b) A boring conversation with Flashman.
(c) A difficult first day at Rugby.
(d) The blanket tossing without complaint, even though he feels frightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Tom's father, the Squire, liberal?

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

3. What does Tom's reaction to his father's speech reveal?

4. For what is Tom proud to pay?

5. What involves two men, each carrying a wooden cudgel or club, climbing into what might be described as a kind of boxing ring, and fighting to see who can make the other's scalp bleed first?

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