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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) "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 to price of a pound and put it to good use."

3. How does the narrative voice shift?
(a) From first person past tense to first person present tense.
(b) From first person to third person.
(c) From first person present tense to first person past tense.
(d) From third person to first person.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Old Brooke and other boys like him leave the school. How are they described?

2. Why does Flashman leave the school?

3. How is the meal in the common room and roll call?

4. What does Diggs, who is studying nearby, tell Tom and East to do to Flashman?

5. Why is Tom so proud?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tom's first full year begin?

2. What happens later in the trip?

3. How do Tom, East, and Diggs get back at Flashman?

4. How does Tom come to attend Rugby?

5. How do Tom and East behave after Flashman leaves the school?

6. How does Tom take East's warning about Flashman?

7. Where does Benjy take Tom? What happens as a result?

8. What two incidents teach Tom the foolishness of this poor attitude?

9. Describe the Squire's final words to his son.

10. What is different about the way Tom travels to school from how one travels to school in the twenty-first century?

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