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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 shows Tom around the school?

2. Who does Tom's mother take in, train, and pass on to other jobs?

3. What is the tone of the Squire's words to his son?

4. How does Tom feel about helping Diggs?

5. Who cares for Tom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator believe young men may better themselves?

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

3. What happens later in the trip?

4. How does Tom react to his father's words?

5. How is Tom's morning on the stagecoach?

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

7. Describe the Squire's final words to his son.

8. What types of friends does the Squire believe Tom should have?

9. What is Tom's overall feel of the day?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

East acts as Tom's trainer for the fight with Williams.

Part 1) What is East's advice to Tom?

Part 2) What does Tom do with East's advice?

Part 3) How does Tom's reaction to East's advice reflect his character?

Essay Topic 3

Old Brooke gives a speech to the boys before he leaves the school.

Part 1) What does he say in the speech?

Part 2) What makes Old Brooke and the other older boys different from the boys that replace them as the leaders in the school?

Part 3) How does the change in leadership affect the younger boys in the school?

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