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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 keep forgetting to do?
(a) Use a knife and fork.
(b) Play the part of the prince.
(c) Speak in high court language.
(d) Bow to the ladies.

2. Why does John Canty change his name?
(a) He likes the name Hobbs.
(b) To avoid his wife finding him.
(c) To avoid the law.
(d) To have a fresh start in America.

3. How does Tom feel about his discovery in Chapter 14?
(a) Confused.
(b) Sad.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Happy.

4. What troubles Henry VIII while he sleeps?
(a) The smell of incense.
(b) Pain in his stomach.
(c) A fly in the room.
(d) Bad dreams.

5. What does Tom's father do for a living?
(a) He is a thief.
(b) He is a shoe cobbler.
(c) He is a fisherman.
(d) He is a dock worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom examine with his uncle?

2. Where is Tom escorted after breakfast?

3. What does Tom's grandmother help John do?

4. Why doesn't anyone react when Tom eats with his fingers?

5. What does Edward observe when he wakes in a barn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the setting of The Prince and the Pauper? What are the circumstances of Tom's birth and Edward's birth?

2. Why does John tell the family they must leave the house? How does Edward finally escape from them?

3. What does John Canty do with Edward when he sees him? Who tries to stop him? What does John do to that person?

4. Describe London in Tom's time. In what area of London does Tom's family live?

5. What does Tom read about? What does he do with what he learns? What does he desire from his reading?

6. What happens when Lady Jane Grey visits Tom as the prince?

7. What does Tom do with the three criminals from question #29?

8. What do the people in the barn do when Edward tells them he is the king of England?

9. What does Hertford tell the king when Henry awakes? What does the king need to do about it? Why can't Henry do it?

10. What does Canty tell Edward when Hugo leads him to Tom's father?

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