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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Edward pass his first night alone?
(a) Freezing to death.
(b) Crying.
(c) In fair comfort and peace.
(d) Terribly fightened.

2. What does Henry declare about Tom?
(a) The court physician will heal him.
(b) He is not his son.
(c) The priest says that Tom is fine.
(d) He is not permanently mad.

3. What does Tom do when Jane Grey enters the room?
(a) Falls at her feet.
(b) Faints.
(c) Hides behind the curtains.
(d) Crawls under the bed.

4. What does Jane Grey's visit to Edward's room accomplish?
(a) Makes Tom hide from everyone.
(b) Convinces Tom that his scheme will work.
(c) Gets Tom into serious trouble.
(d) Starts a rumor that he is crazy.

5. Where does Edward take Tom when he rescues him from the palace guards?
(a) To the jail.
(b) To the guard house.
(c) To his father.
(d) To an apartment in the palace.

6. Where does Tom's family live?
(a) On a floor in a rundown house.
(b) In a seedy inn near the bridge.
(c) In the streets.
(d) On the dock.

7. After the papers are read, with whom does Tom spend an hour?
(a) Lord St. John.
(b) Elizabeth and Jane.
(c) Jane and Humphrey.
(d) Hertford.

8. What makes Hertford happy when he sees Tom after Tom talks to Humphrey?
(a) The prince's memory has improved.
(b) The prince is going to make a good king.
(c) Tom has some color in his cheeks.
(d) Tom is in a good mood.

9. Whom does the narrator quote?
(a) A wizard's raven.
(b) An ancient chronicler.
(c) A court scribe.
(d) A court jester.

10. In what city does this story take place?
(a) Derbyshire.
(b) London.
(c) York.
(d) Castleton.

11. Tom's father forces him to __________.
(a) Sell fish.
(b) Sell newspapers.
(c) Beg.
(d) Clean boats.

12. What does Mrs. Canty think about Edward?
(a) He is drunk.
(b) He is telling the truth.
(c) There is something different about him.
(d) He must have been hit on the head.

13. What does Tom learn about with Hertford and others?
(a) The funeral plans for Henry.
(b) How to talk to an ambassador.
(c) Where the royal robes are located.
(d) The coronation process.

14. Why won't Tom use his napkin?
(a) It is too pretty to soil.
(b) He does not know how to use it.
(c) He uses the tablecloth.
(d) It falls on the floor.

15. How does Miles feel about Edward?
(a) Impatient.
(b) Fond of him.
(c) Irritated with him.
(d) Bored.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hertford ask Tom in Chapter 14?

2. The event which Tom's servants prepare him for will be attended by ______________.

3. What is Offal Court like?

4. Of what does the prince dream when he sleeps that night?

5. Why do the boys at the church beat Edward?

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