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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. In what are his words grounded?

2. What does Tom's landowning family rarely, if ever, do?

3. What does Old Brooke do at the end of the singing?

4. What narrative form is initially used in this chapter?

5. Upon what does Tom reflect?

Short Essay Questions

1. What action makes Tom proud of himself?

2. What is "the veast?"

3. Why does Tom's respect for the Doctor increase?

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

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

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

7. What happens after the blanket tossing?

8. How is Tom's life at Rugby School?

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

10. How do Tom, East, and Diggs get back at Flashman?

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

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 3

Tom associates himself with a group of boys that would rather play and harass the teachers than receive an education.

Part 1) Why does he associate with this group?

Part 2) How does this seem to be a step down from how he is at the beginning of the book and his first days at Rugby School?

Part 3) How does he grow out of this phase?

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