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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Tom and East convince other boys their age to do?
(a) Listen to Flahsman's orders.
(b) Refuse to obey Flashman's orders.
(c) Steal from the school.
(d) Break into the Doctor's office.

2. Why is Tom so proud?
(a) He enjoys the inn.
(b) He loves his mother.
(c) He's acting just like a grownup.
(d) He is wealthier than all the other boys at the school.

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

4. Instead of focusing on increasing their level of sophistication and the amount of money they possess,What would young men be able to do?
(a) "Value a man wholly and solely for what was in him."
(b) "Enjoy life and all its advantages."
(c) "Value to price of a pound and put it to good use."
(d) "Tease and torture a man who does not care about wealth and his standing in society."

5. What narrative form is initially used in this chapter?
(a) Third person.
(b) First person past tense.
(c) First person present tense.
(d) Second person.

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

7. What has happens to East during the game?
(a) He falls asleep.
(b) He hurts his foot.
(c) He runs into Old Brooke.
(d) He leaves the game because of too many penalties.

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

9. What does Old Brooke do at the end of the singing?
(a) He stands up and leaves.
(b) He reprimands the younger boys.
(c) He stands up and gives a speech.
(d) He argues with East.

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

11. What does Tom's landowning family rarely, if ever, do?
(a) Leave London.
(b) Sell property to other families.
(c) Leave the county in which Tom is born.
(d) Stay at home.

12. Why do Tom and East go into the village?
(a) They want to see the girls from the other public school.
(b) To buy hunting supplies.
(c) To buy some food for their tea.
(d) To buy their school books.

13. Why does Tom not pay much attention to the first church service?
(a) He is too busy talking to East.
(b) He is absorbed at looking at al the beautiful architectural details on the church.
(c) He is too curious about the church and his fellow students.
(d) The sermon is really boring.

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

15. What happens to Tom and East's reputations?
(a) The other boys do not take the rumors seriously, so the reputations do not last.
(b) Their blackened reputations linger long after Flashman leaves.
(c) Their heroic reputations last for the rest of the school year.
(d) Tom and East ignore them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the boys get together in the common room?

2. What leads to Tom panicking and starting for the door to fetch the nurse?

3. When does Tom arrive at his destination?

4. What does Flashman do when he discovers Tom and East by the fire together?

5. This novel tells the story of a rambunctious young student. Where is he located?

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