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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 do the boys get together in the common room?

2. How do Tom and East help Diggs?

3. What happens to Tom when East runs to get Diggs?

4. Old Brooke and other boys like him leave the school. How are they described?

5. What does East tell Tom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two incidents teach Tom the foolishness of this poor attitude?

2. How does Tom come to attend Rugby?

3. What is the narrator's opinion of the English country?

4. What key themes appear in this chapter?

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

6. What lesson does Tom learn from a boy at the local private school?

7. How do Tom and East rebel against Flashman's treatment of them?

8. What trouble does Tom get into? How is he punished?

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

10. What happens later in the trip?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the two antagonists is Flashman.

Part 1) Who is Flashman?

Part 2) How does he act as an antagonist?

Part 3) What is his purpose in the story?

Essay Topic 2

Diggs encourages Tom and East to stand up for themselves.

Part 1) Why does he encourage this? From whom are the boys defending themselves?

Part 2) How is Diggs mistreated?

Part 3) Does Diggs' stand up for himself? Support your response with details from the story.

Essay Topic 3

There are several bullies in this novel.

Part 1) Who are the bullies?

Part 2) How do the other Rugby boys deal with them?

Part 3) What role do they play in developing the man that Tom becomes?

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