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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 is timing the boys?

2. Who takes control of the school when Old Brooke and other older boys leave?

3. Why does Tom not pay much attention to the first church service?

4. In what are his words grounded?

5. Who teaches Tom how to wrestle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tom take East's warning about Flashman?

2. How does Tom's first full year begin?

3. What happens later in the trip?

4. When does Flashman's bullying become dangerous?

5. What key themes appear in this chapter?

6. How does Flashman and his cronies treat Tom once he is healed from the last incident?

7. What action makes Tom proud of himself?

8. How does one know that Rugby School is not near Tom's home?

9. What is different about the way Tom travels to school from how one travels to school in the twenty-first century?

10. How does Tom come to attend Rugby?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The stolen duck is symbolic.

Part 1) What does the stolen duck say about East and Tom's characters?

Part 2) What do the boys do with the duck? What does this symbolize?

Part 3) How does this relate to the Christian ideals of the narrator?

Essay Topic 2

The Squire and Tom have a gruff, yet intimate relationship.

Part 1) What does the Squire do before speaking his final words to Tom?

Part 2) What advice does he give Tom?

Part 3) What is Tom's reaction to his father's advice?

Essay Topic 3

Arthur's father dies from typhus.

Part 1) What about Arthur's father teaches Arthur how to handle this tragedy?

Part 2) What are the circumstances in which Tom learns about this?

Part 3) To what habit of Tom and Arthur's, and eventually East's, does this lead?

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