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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Arthur's father?
(a) A tough businessman.
(b) A respected and kind schoolmaster.
(c) A respected, gentle, and wise minister.
(d) An abusive alcoholic.

2. Who says that as long as it is done properly it is perfectly legal?
(a) The Doctor.
(b) Martin.
(c) Young Brooke.
(d) East.

3. How is the fight conducted?
(a) With the formality of a professional boxing match.
(b) As a brawl in the dormatories.
(c) Quick and without a crowd.
(d) Very informally in the school yard.

4. What piece of news does the School Nurse give Tom?
(a) He will be living in different quarters.
(b) He has been assigned the large study he wants.
(c) He has a severe fever.
(d) He is expelled from Rugby.

5. What does Tom debate with one of the teachers?
(a) Whether or not Tom should take a cricket scholarship to Oxford.
(b) Whether Tom should leave Rugby or become a teacher.
(c) Whether or not Tom cheated on a test.
(d) Whether Tom's studies in Greek are more or less useful in life than his increasing skills at cricket.

6. What has increased in Tom's life?
(a) The time he spends with East.
(b) The amount of time he spends with Arthur.
(c) The amount of school work.
(d) The time he spends with Diggs.

7. What is Tom determined to avoid?
(a) Cheating.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Arguing.
(d) Doing school work.

8. What does East admit to Tom?
(a) He is not a Christian.
(b) He has never been confirmed.
(c) He has never been baptized.
(d) He had never been to church before attending Rugby.

9. What do the boys wonder about the move?
(a) Where Tom learned the move.
(b) Whether or not it is safe.
(c) Whether or not it is legal.
(d) How to do it.

10. How do "we...come to the knowledge of Him?"
(a) "It is only through daily prayer..."
(b) "It is only through our mysterious human relationships..."
(c) "It is only through constant devotion and ritual..."
(d) "It is only through sacrifice and love..."

11. What does East do for Tom during the fight?
(a) He encourages him to back down.
(b) He tells him to land the first punches.
(c) He acts as his trainer and gives him advice.
(d) He helps fight Williams.

12. How is Arthur, physically, at this point in the story?
(a) He is weaker than when he first arrived.
(b) He becomes physically sturdier and more active.
(c) He is the same.
(d) He is stronger than Tom.

13. Why does East tell Tom to wear Williams out?
(a) So his own attacks have more effect.
(b) So Williams will end the fight.
(c) So his own attacks have less effect.
(d) So Williams will give in.

14. According to East, what do the teachers want from students, regarding learning?
(a) They want them to be lifelong learners.
(b) They want them to be engaged in what they are studying.
(c) They do not care how students learn, they just want the students to have learned.
(d) They want them to memorize information that is unimportant.

15. How does Tom defend Arthur from the taunts of some of the older boys?
(a) He flings a shoe at an older boy who taunts Arthur.
(b) He takes Arthur away from the boys.
(c) He does not defend him but joins in the taunting.
(d) He encourages the boys to tease someone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom fight for the first couple of rounds?

2. How does Tom quickly gain the upper hand?

3. What does Tom's final cricket match represent?

4. With whom is Rugby playing an important cricket match?

5. What does East still believe is not a bad thing?

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