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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 is Edward renamed?

2. What makes the farmer's wife think Edward must have been a helper in the king's kitchen?

3. What makes the bundle that was stolen valuable?

4. Who sees Miles outside the palace?

5. How many servants does Tom add to his retinue?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Miles do as a test when he sees Edward on the throne? What is Edward's response?

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

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

5. How does Tom feel when he sees his mother in the crowd? What does he do? What does she do?

6. Describe Tom's appearance during the recognition procession. What custom does he follow?

7. Whom does Edward meet the morning after he escapes from Canty and the gang? What do they do with him?

8. What happens when Tom is being crowned?

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

10. What happens with Hugh Hendon and Edith in the Conclusion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The huge gap between nobility and the peasantry in 16th century England is apparent by simply stating that Tom's family did not welcome his birth, while the entire country rejoiced at the arrival of Prince Edward.

1. Do you think the above statement is true? Why or why not? Use examples from The Prince and the Pauper to support your ideas.

2. Discuss the implications that exist for a family below the poverty level to add another child to the family.

3. How do you think not being wanted by his parents affected Tom emotionally? Might it have affected him in other ways? Use examples from The Prince and the Pauper to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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