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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Old Brooke encourage all the boys to do?
(a) Work and play with integrity and courage and to endure bullying the same way.
(b) To bribe other students to do their work for them.
(c) To bully the younger students.
(d) Annoy the teachers and not study.

2. What does the Doctor's sermon encourage?
(a) The boys to live for their education here at Rugby.
(b) The boys to pray every night.
(c) The boys to live life well, rather than let it pass by them.
(d) To follow all his instructions.

3. Why does Tom rush into the game and attempt to defend the goal?
(a) He is bored and wants some excitement.
(b) He does not believe East's house is doing very well.
(c) The excitement becomes too much for him.
(d) He is a better goalie than the goalie on the team.

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

5. How does Tom watch the combat?
(a) With fear.
(b) With excitement.
(c) With a sense of boredom.
(d) With anxiety.

6. What does Tom ask East regarding Brooke?
(a) If Brooke is good at playing football.
(b) If Brooke will let Tom play in the game.
(c) If Brooke is the team captain.
(d) If Brooke is mean.

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

8. When is Tom's father, the Squire, liberal?
(a) In his dealing out of money.
(b) When he is voting for politicians.
(c) When it comes to the women he dates.
(d) When it comes to the boys he believes with whom Tom could or should make friends.

9. 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.

10. Why are the boys being timed?
(a) To see how quickly they can do the times tables.
(b) To see how quickly they run a mile.
(c) To see you can swim the farthest.
(d) To see who can hold his breath the longest.

11. What friendship does Tom's father encourage?
(a) His friendships with those of other cultures.
(b) His friendship with the sons of the village laborers.
(c) His friendships with the servants in the house.
(d) His friendship with those in his own social class.

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

13. Why are Tom and East sent up to see the Doctor to take their punishment?
(a) They refuse to turn in their homework.
(b) They are laughing during his sermon.
(c) They arrive late to school after a cross-country chase.
(d) They arrive late to their first class in the morning.

14. What team gains control of the game?
(a) The school from London.
(b) West's house.
(c) East's house.
(d) The Paris academy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At one point, what does Flashman's bullying become?

2. Upon what does Tom reflect?

3. What is Tom given?

4. Where are the students headed after roll call?

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

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