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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 Edward and the youth not realize?
2. What keeps Edward warm on his first night alone in the barn?
3. For what do Tom's servants prepare Tom?
4. Where does the royal barge stop on the Thames?
5. What does Tom learn about with Hertford and others?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Canty tell Edward when Hugo leads him to Tom's father?
2. Who lives in the Canty's house besides the family?
3. What does Hertford tell the king when Henry awakes? What does the king need to do about it? Why can't Henry do it?
4. What does Canty do with the prince when he gets to his house? What does Canty tell the prince to do? How does Mrs. Canty react?
5. What does Tom read about? What does he do with what he learns? What does he desire from his reading?
6. What does Tom do after dinner?
7. How does Tom like the king's duties? What criminals does he see a couple of days after he becomes the king?
8. What is Tom prepared for in Chapter 16? How does he do with the event?
9. Who arrives at the Guildhall as Hendon takes the prince to safety? What is the result of this arrival?
10. Where does the prince go when he is lost in the crowd?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Before Mark Twain begins his tale, his indication that it might or might not have actually happened is a way of suggesting that the facts themselves are secondary. What counts most, the author implies, are the truths to be found behind the events.
1. Discuss, in depth, what you think is meant by the above statement. Use examples from The Prince and the Pauper to illustrate your discussion.
2. List three truths you believe can be found behind the actual plot or actions in The Prince and the Pauper and explain why you believe those to be truths.
3. In your opinion, what is Mark Twain's agenda is for writing The Prince and the Pauper? Use examples from The Prince and the Pauper to support your opinions.
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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