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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the excellent qualities of the Brown family?
(a) Wealth, prosperity, and strength.
(b) Strength, courage, and determination.
(c) Kindness, love, and modesty.
(d) Faith, hope, and charity.

2. How does Tom feel about helping Diggs?
(a) He regrets helping Diggs.
(b) He feels obligated to help him.
(c) He wishes he did not have to help him.
(d) He is proud of himself for having done the right thing.

3. What causes a teacher and several others to change their view of Tom from respect to wariness?
(a) Playing in the teacher's desk,
(b) Stealing from other students.
(c) Bullying young students.
(d) Arguing with the teachers.

4. What happens to Benjy when he tries the potion?
(a) He become violently ill.
(b) He becomes less and less able to move.
(c) He breaks out in hives.
(d) He is healed.

5. Why does Tom buy sausages to share with the other boys in their house?
(a) He brags about how much money he has.
(b) He has more money than East.
(c) He loves sausages.
(d) He wants them to like him.

6. Why is there a shift?
(a) The author is being creative.
(b) The author is trying to confuse the reader.
(c) The author is trying to make the story more exciting.
(d) The author intends to give the reader a more immediate sense of Tom's experience.

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

8. What does Tom think about this day?
(a) It is uneventful.
(b) It is the saddest day he has ever had.
(c) It is an anxious day.
(d) It is the greatest day he would ever have.

9. 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?
(a) Back-sword.
(b) Ultimate fighting.
(c) Backgammon.
(d) Cudgel war.

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

11. What are the two students doing to the coach?
(a) Teasing the horses pulling it.
(b) Throwing rocks at it.
(c) Trying to stop it.
(d) Running alongside it.

12. How is the narration different from chapters one through three?
(a) It is in first person present tense in chapter four, rather than first person past tense.
(b) It is in second person in chapter four, rather than third person.
(c) It is in third person in chapter four, rather than first person.
(d) It is in first in chapter four, rather than third person.

13. Upon what does Tom reflect?
(a) On his life before leaving for school.
(b) How much he misses his family.
(c) On his old school.
(d) How he's never had a more pleasant day.

14. How do both Tom and East feel?
(a) Bored.
(b) Tired.
(c) They are both stiff and in pain after both the game and the tossing.
(d) Excited and full of energy.

15. How does Flashman now treat Tom?
(a) He treats him with the utmost respect.
(b) He ignores Tom.
(c) He still beats him.
(d) He no longer bullies him physically, but he taunts him verbally at every opportunity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wakes Tom at the roadside inn?

2. What does Old Brooke say to Tom?

3. Who is Benjy?

4. At what does the narrator speak at length?

5. When does Tom arrive at his destination?

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