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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 do East and other boys think about Tom's relationship with Arthur?
(a) Tom should let Arthur find his own way.
(b) It is a strange relationship.
(c) It is a healthy relationship.
(d) Tom should spend more time with Arthur.

2. Why does Arthur not play with other boys but spends time studying the Bible and discussing philosophy with his father?
(a) He does not like sports.
(b) He does not have any friends.
(c) He is always sickly.
(d) He is in a wheelchair.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Tom get into a fight?

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

3. Why does Tom more eagerly move into acceptance of his new role?

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

5. Tom and East return to Rugby, after a holiday, full of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does East get himself into trouble, regarding the farmer?

2. What does East confess?

3. The narrator asks the reader to pardon Tom for being filled with more thoughts of the Doctor than of God. What is his explanation for Tom's behavior?

4. Two years have passed. How are Arthur, Martin, East, and Tom doing?

5. How well does Tom do in the fight?

6. Why is Arthur worried about Tom's safety in the fight?

7. How does Tom feel about mentoring Arthur?

8. What rumor becomes reality?

9. How does Arthur's body handle the trek to the kestrel's nest?

10. What do the boys watching begin to debate?

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