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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. Who sees Tom to help him recover from his madness?

2. Why does John Canty change his name?

3. What did Henry rename the church where Edward stopped?

4. What must the king do in order to finish up the affair with the Duke of Norfolk?

5. What does Tom discover when he wakes in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Edward see when he wakes in the barn and what do the people talk about?

2. What is Tom doing when the prince first does not return?

3. How does Mrs. Canty test Edward to see if he is Tom? What is the result of the test?

4. How does Tom like the king's duties? What criminals does he see a couple of days after he becomes the king?

5. Where is Miles looking for Edward? What does he think Edward might have done?

6. What is Tom's house like? Who lives there with him?

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

8. What do Hertford and St. John decide individually and together about Tom?

9. What does Hertford tell the king in response to the king's problem in question # 16? What does Hertford do? What is the result of Hertford's action? What does the king decide to do?

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 initial worries about being mistaken for the prince are beginning to abate, which is understandable because excuses are given for every mistake he makes.

1. Given the treatment Tom, as a person believed to the prince and insane was given, what type of personality defects do you think could show up in a person who was treated like this, as if he or she were so important that no one would dare contradict him or her. Use examples from your own life to illustrate your answer.

2. Acting as if the prince were fine, even when drinking out of a hand washing bowl, seems to be more insane than Tom's behavior. Do you think this is true? Why or why not?

3. How do you think denial about people we know well in any situation affects our relationships in the world?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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