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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Tom resign himself for dinner?
(a) Being dressed by servants.
(b) Having to pretend to be the prince.
(c) Not liking any of the food.
(d) Using table utensils.

2. How does Tom feel about Lady Jane and Lady Elizabeth?
(a) He warms to them as they are kind.
(b) He is afraid of them.
(c) He avoids talking to them.
(d) He thinks they are silly.

3. During what time in history does this story take place?
(a) In 1627.
(b) The middle 1500's.
(c) The end of the 1600's.
(d) In 1748.

4. What does John demand of Edward when he drags him into the house?
(a) He must go to his pallet with no dinner.
(b) He must sit in a corner.
(c) He must clean the floor on his hands and knees.
(d) He must share his identity with Tom's mother and sisters.

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

6. What does Tom's mother do for a living?
(a) She begs.
(b) She sews.
(c) She is a maid.
(d) She takes in laundry.

7. What does Edward observe when he wakes in a barn?
(a) Everyone has left him.
(b) People sitting around a campfire in the barn.
(c) John has killed an intruder.
(d) A red sunrise.

8. What does Father Andrew teach Tom?
(a) About the Catholic religion.
(b) How to read and write and some Latin.
(c) How to read and speak French.
(d) How to say Mass.

9. What does Tom think about his life?
(a) He thinks it's horrible.
(b) He thinks it's exciting.
(c) He is indifferent to his life.
(d) It's all right because he doesn't know anything else.

10. What kind of papers are read to Tom?
(a) The London Times newspaper.
(b) What is expected of him for his Henry's funeral.
(c) Petitions and public business.
(d) Henry's will.

11. Why do Edward and Tom switch clothes?
(a) To fool the palace guards.
(b) To see if they are the same size.
(c) So Tom can have nice clothes.
(d) To see what it feels like to be the other one.

12. What must the king do in order to finish up the affair with the Duke of Norfolk?
(a) Imprint his seal.
(b) Set a date for the wedding.
(c) Set a date for the execution.
(d) Have the prince approve it.

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

14. In what ceremony does Tom have to participate in Chapter 9?
(a) Edward's coronation.
(b) Presentation of the soon-to-be king.
(c) The execution of the Duke of Norfolk.
(d) The wedding of the Duke of Norfolk.

15. What does a servant from the inn tell Miles?
(a) A youth has led Edward away.
(b) Edward is in the kitchen eating.
(c) Edward won't get out of the bathtub.
(d) Edward is feeding the horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Tom worried about previously?

2. How far apart are Tom and Edward's birthdays?

3. What is the subject of the book which Tom finds to read in Edward's room?

4. Whom does the narrator quote?

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

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