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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. What do Tom and East convince other boys their age to do?

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

3. What does Flashman do when he discovers Tom and East by the fire together?

4. How does Tom watch the combat?

5. How is the relationship between Squire Brown and Tom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the two church services for Tom?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Old Brooke say in his speech?

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

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

9. How do Tom and East behave after Flashman leaves the school?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At first, Tom is reluctant to be a mentor to Arthur.

Part 1) Why?

Part 2) What makes him change his mind?

Part 3) How does their relationship as mentor and protege change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 2

Tom believes that the stagecoach ride to Rugby School is the greatest day in his life.

Part 1) Why?

Part 2) How does this foreshadow his experiences at Rugby School?

Part 3) Would he still consider this the greatest day of his life at the end of the book? Why or why not?

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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