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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the narrator, how must a young man fight?
(a) Carefully and cautiously.
(b) Out spite and hatred.
(c) With his voice, not his fists.
(d) With integrity and moral courage.

3. For what does the narrator ask the reader to pardon Tom?
(a) Not getting to the Chapel sooner.
(b) Not being more kind to the Doctor.
(c) Ignoring his studies after leaving Rugby School.
(d) Being filled with more thoughts of the Doctor than God.

4. Why does Tom decide to send Arthur into the game?
(a) Several other players are injured, so Tom had no choice but to put in Arthur.
(b) He is the best player on the team.
(c) He has been begging to be put in the game, and Tom has a hard time saying no to Arthur.
(d) Out of respect for Arthur's commitment to the game and for all Arthur has done for him.

5. What is essentially East's character?
(a) The idea that he cannot stand hypocrisy.
(b) He is enthusiastic and lovable.
(c) The idea that education is not important.
(d) He is lazy and uneducated.

6. What is the novel's central theme?
(a) One learns important lessons when away at school.
(b) The importance of human relationships.
(c) Fighting is an innate part of humanity.
(d) As an adult, one must be independent.

7. What does Tom discover about the Doctor?
(a) He is buried at sea.
(b) He is cremated.
(c) He did not die after all.
(d) He has been buried in the Chapel.

8. All change brought about by the passing of time ends in what same result?
(a) Death.
(b) Disaster.
(c) Life.
(d) Being brought to heaven.

9. Why does Arthur tell the School Nurse about the fight?
(a) He becomes fearful for Tom's safety.
(b) He becomes fearful for Williams' safety.
(c) Tom is injured.
(d) Tom is hurting Williams.

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

11. What does Tom understand about his relationship with Arthur?
(a) It will last for the rest of their lives.
(b) Arthur's success in school is all due to Tom.
(c) All the good that has come into his life is due to his relationship with Arthur.
(d) It has grown deeper over the passing years.

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

13. A few weeks before Arthur was to be sent to Rugby, what happens to his father and mother?
(a) They are murdered in a robbery that went bad.
(b) They adopt another child.
(c) They move to London.
(d) Both become ill with typhus.

14. As the schoolboys and the spectators prepare for a post match party, where does Tom go?
(a) Back to a teacher's home for tea.
(b) He goes home to pray.
(c) He meets East at a private party.
(d) To a local pub with the cricket team.

15. What move gets questioned by the boys watching?
(a) A choke hold.
(b) A wrestling pin.
(c) The wrestling throw Tom learned in Chapter 3.
(d) An upper cut to the jaw.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the boys, including Tom and Williams, quickly disperse?

2. What piece of news does the School Nurse give Tom?

3. Why is Arthur in Tom's office weeping as he reads his Bible?

4. Where is Tom when he receives news of the Doctor's death?

5. Why is anyone who dares to taunt Tom quickly silenced?

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