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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. Whom is Tom commanded to visit?
2. What does Jane Grey's visit to Edward's room accomplish?
3. What does a servant from the inn tell Miles?
4. Tom's father forces him to __________.
5. What makes Hertford happy when he sees Tom after Tom talks to Humphrey?
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. What does Edward command Miles to do before the prince will go to sleep? What does Miles do first when morning comes?
3. What does the prince's presentation to the people look like?
4. What does Tom dream about on the night the king dies? How does he feel when he wakes the next morning?
5. What does Tom do with the three criminals from question #29?
6. Describe the place where Tom is taken for dinner.
7. What does Miles tell Edward of his problem with Miles' brother?
8. What does Edward see when he wakes in the barn and what do the people talk about?
9. What does Tom do that Edward wouldn't do while eating? How does everyone react?
10. What does Tom do after dinner?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Twain uses Chapter 9 to depict the majesty and spectacle of a court pageant. His goals in elaborately describing the pomp and finery of the procession are to impress upon the reader the remarkable esteem in which the future king is held and to make the point that the position itself is, in many ways, more important than the individual who holds it.
1. Discuss what is meant by the above statement.
2. Defend or rebut the following statement: Since it is the position, not the person, that is more important in a monarchy such as in this book, it doesn't matter who becomes a king or queen.
3. How did Tom's short service as the king demonstrate the truth of the above statement? How did it rebut the statement? Use examples from The Prince and the Pauper to support your ideas.
Essay Topic 2
It is interesting that the hermit thinks of himself as a holy man, yet he is angered by how Henry VIII thwarted the hermit's ambition. In retaliation, the hermit wants to kill the king's son and, because the hermit is crazy, he has no trouble believing that Edward is the prince. Twain seems to be making a point that religion, like Nature, has two sides. It can be nurturing or it can produce dangerous behavior.
1. Explain some examples of religion as a nurturing force in the world.
2. Explain some examples of religion as a destructive force in the world.
3. Overall, in the history of the world, and considering all major religions, do you think religion has been a positive or negative force in the world? Explain your reasoning.
Essay Topic 3
Tom's two guardians, now alone, reflect that the king is ill and the prince is mad. St. John hints that he doubts the boy really is the prince, but Hertford declares this treasonous, and St. John quickly retracts. When St. John leaves, Hertford begins to wonder if the boy could be an impostor, but then he reflects that the child denies being the prince, which no impostor would do. He decides that it must mean that the prince has gone mad.
1. What are the implications for a political system that a thought that is true could be labeled treasonous? Use examples from The Prince and the Pauper and other sources to support your ideas.
2. How does an idea that is true being treasonous in a 1500 era monarchy relate to a modern country, for example, China, whose citizens are not allowed to speak truth that conflicts with official positions? Use examples from The Prince and the Pauper to support your ideas.
3. When Hertford decides Tom is mad, not an impostor, he does so with what might be termed circular reasoning. What do you think is meant by the term circular reasoning? Discuss why Hertford's thinking might qualify as such.
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