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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two students doing to the coach?

2. What is Tom given?

3. Tom accompanies Benjy to the farm of an Old Man who reportedly knows what?

4. Through what city does Tom travel?

5. At one point, what does Flashman's bullying become?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after the blanket tossing?

2. What does Old Brooke say in his speech?

3. What trouble does Tom get into? How is he punished?

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

5. How is Tom's life at Rugby School?

6. What happens later in the evening?

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

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

9. What is "the veast?"

10. What lesson does Tom learn from a boy at the local private school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are several bullies in this novel.

Part 1) Who are the bullies?

Part 2) How do the other Rugby boys deal with them?

Part 3) What role do they play in developing the man that Tom becomes?

Essay Topic 2

The Squire and Tom have a gruff, yet intimate relationship.

Part 1) What does the Squire do before speaking his final words to Tom?

Part 2) What advice does he give Tom?

Part 3) What is Tom's reaction to his father's advice?

Essay Topic 3

Tom believes that the stagecoach ride to Rugby School is the greatest day in his life.

Part 1) Why?

Part 2) How does this foreshadow his experiences at Rugby School?

Part 3) Would he still consider this the greatest day of his life at the end of the book? Why or why not?

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