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

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

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

5. When Tom returns to regular school life after a couple of days of recovery, what does he discover?
(a) Flashman is as mean as ever.
(b) East has joined Flashman's gang.
(c) Flashman and his cronies fear him.
(d) The attitude of Flashman's cronies towards him has improved.

6. How would young men busy with intellectual pursuits, politics and social reform be much better off?
(a) If they cultivated friendships.
(b) Marrying an intelligent woman.
(c) Not trusting others.
(d) Working in solitude.

7. What does Old Brooke say to Tom?
(a) He is ashamed of Tom's behavior.
(b) He will never be on the football team.
(c) He is shocked that Tom is better than everyone else on the team.
(d) He's sure Tom will be a good player.

8. 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 to price of a pound and put it to good use."
(b) "Tease and torture a man who does not care about wealth and his standing in society."
(c) "Enjoy life and all its advantages."
(d) "Value a man wholly and solely for what was in him."

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

14. Tom accompanies Benjy to the farm of an Old Man who reportedly knows what?
(a) How to drive a stagecoach.
(b) How to break a horse.
(c) How to play cudgel war.
(d) The medicinal powers of herbs.

15. Who is Benjy?
(a) Tom's uncle.
(b) Tom's cousin.
(c) One of the two young farm hands.
(d) One of the two elderly farm hands.