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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 does Tom dream about and incorporate in his play time?
2. What does Tom keep forgetting to do?
3. What does Tom's grandmother help John do?
4. What makes Tom's father beat him?
5. What does Tom learn about with Hertford and others?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Tom do after dinner?
2. What does Tom do on the first day in which they believe he is the king?
3. What does Tom do with the three criminals from question #29?
4. What does John Canty do with Edward when he sees him? Who tries to stop him? What does John do to that person?
5. Where does Edward go the first time he escapes from Canty and the others?
6. What does Canty tell Edward when Hugo leads him to Tom's father?
7. What does Miles find when he returns to the room where he left the prince? What does a servant tell him?
8. How does Tom like the king's duties? What criminals does he see a couple of days after he becomes the king?
9. What do the people in the barn do when Edward tells them he is the king of England?
10. Why is Tom taken to meet with Lord St. John and Lord Hertford? Who else comes in to talk with Tom? How does he feel about them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
The jewels in which Tom is draped are blinding in the light. Symbolically, they blind others to the boy as a false prince.
Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in The Prince and the Pauper.
2. Trace and analyze one major theme of The Prince and the Pauper. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of The Prince and the Pauper. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
Essay Topic 3
When John Canty demands that Edward tell Tom's mother and sisters who he is, Edward declares again that he is the Prince of Wales. Mrs. Canty is stunned and thinks that he is crazy. Edward gently tells her he does not recognize her. . Mrs. Canty thinks there is something different about the child, and she decides that a good test of his identity would be to startle him, to see if raises his hands to his eyes, a characteristic gesture of Tom's ever since he was little. She startles him awake, but he does not raise his hands. She tries this three times, with the same result each time, and yet she cannot believe he is not Tom.
1. Out of all the family members of Tom's family, why do you think it was his mother who believes Edward may not be Tom? Do you think this would be true in most families, that the mother would know a child the best? Why or why not?
2. Even though Mrs. Canty thought of a successful way to test Edward, she still did not believe the results. Discuss reasons why she remained blind to the obvious.
3. Using research, if necessary, discuss ways in which a person might be able to deny an obvious truth.
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