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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. What is a traditional, local village fair with booths of food for sale, games of chance, and contests of physical strength and courage?
(a) The fete.
(b) The festival.
(c) The veast.
(d) The celebration.

2. 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.

3. How is Benjy's search for a cure for his rheumatism?
(a) He meets only with a half-heartedly offered potion.
(b) He meets with many successful remedies.
(c) He finds absolutely no possible remedy.
(d) It is successful.

4. What does Tom's reaction to his father's speech reveal?
(a) The very formal and distant relationship he and his father have.
(b) How much he dislikes his father.
(c) How much he and his father disagree.
(d) The emotional and intellectual respect with which he regards his father.

5. What does East warn Tom?
(a) The curriculum at Rugby is very difficult.
(b) Flashman and some of the older boys will come looking for them to play the game of tossing them in a blanket.
(c) Flashman will want Tom as a friend.
(d) School starts early in the morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrative voice shift?

2. Who shows Tom around the school?

3. How would young men busy with intellectual pursuits, politics and social reform be much better off?

4. How does Tom feel about the disappearance of such games and competitions from the culture?

5. For what is Tom proud to pay?

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