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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 Miles know about the five servants who remain in the household after he has left?

2. What astonishes Edward after breakfast?

3. Tom reminds Edward of what event?

4. Who encourages Tom to smile?

5. What makes the bundle that was stolen valuable?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miles do when he and Edward get separated?

2. What does Ruffler decide Edward should do? What happens when Hugo takes Edward to do it?

3. How does Edward tell St. John where the seal is located? What happens after they find the seal?

4. Who interrupts the hermit's plans for Edward? How does he miss seeing Edward?

5. Who picks a fight with Edward? Who wins? What happens because of the fight's outcome?

6. How has Tom adapted to his role as king?

7. What happens when Miles arrives at Edward's side?

8. How does Hugh react to Miles? What does he tell Miles? What is Miles' response?

9. What does the woman in the house think of Edward? What does she ask him to do, and how does he do it?

10. What does Edward do about his situation at Hendon Hall? How does Miles mess up Edward's plan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The prince finds that he is in the company of a gang of thieves and beggars, but Twain interjects a note of social concern by having Ruffler discuss farmers who have been forced off their property by landowners eager to enter the more profitable sheep business. One of the men named Yokel describes the oppressive political and economic conditions that forced him into a life of crime.

1. Do you think oppression or economic conditions are justification for resorting to crime? Why or why not? Use examples from The Prince and the Pauper to support your ideas.

2. If a farmer farms another person's land with the agreement that some of his or her harvest will go to the landowner, do you think the landowner has any obligation to maintain that arrangement if the owner decides he/she would rather raise sheep? Why or why not?

3. In the above situation, the farmers are farming land, raising families, and paying for the use of the land. Also, one might suppose they have made improvements on the land. However, the land is owned by another person. Although the life or rights of the farmer means the land stays in farming, the rights of the landowner are trampled if he/she doesn't have the right to do as he/she pleases. Describe how you might solve the situation if you were a judge and this case came to your court.

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

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.

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