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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. Why does Miles decide to search for the person in question 169?
2. Who is Sir Marlow to the whipping boy?
3. Why doesn't Edward command the family to stand while he is eating?
4. Whom does Edward meet in the barn?
5. Who is Sir Humphrey Marlow?
Short Essay Questions
1. Whom does Edward meet the morning after he escapes from Canty and the gang? What do they do with him?
2. How does Hugh react to Miles? What does he tell Miles? What is Miles' response?
3. What does Hugh suggest as Edward's punishment? What happens as a result of the suggestion?
4. What happens when Miles arrives at Edward's side?
5. What happens when Tom is being crowned?
6. What does Ruffler decide Edward should do? What happens when Hugo takes Edward to do it?
7. Who interrupts the hermit's plans for Edward? How does he miss seeing Edward?
8. How do Miles and Edward get away from the constable?
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
If Tom had not recognized, almost by accident, that he had the power to change people's lives with a word, the state of boredom might have gone on indefinitely. His initial interest in the prisoners he sees from the palace windows is just curiosity, but then he realizes that he can command them to come before him and hear about their cases.
1. The power Tom realizes he has interests him much more than the riches available to him. Discuss why you think power would be more tempting than riches to Tom. Use examples from The Prince and the Pauper to support your ideas.
2. Some would say that power and wealth are two sides of the same coin, one cannot have one without the other. Do you think this is true? Why or why not? Use examples from The Prince and the Pauper to support your ideas.
3. If you were offered large wealth but complete anonymity and no power or a lot of power over events but no wealth, which would you choose? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss the following:
1. Compare/contrast the characters of Tom Canty and Prince Edward. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Is either woman's cause more worthy than the other? Be specific and give examples.
2. Compare/contrast the characters of Miles and Hugh. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?
3. Thoroughly analyze how three of the secondary characters in The Prince and the Pauper help drive the plot and what their contribution is to the storyline. Are any of the secondary characters unnecessary? Indispensable? Which of the secondary characters are likable? Which are either unlikable or even despicable? Be specific and give examples.
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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